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The Ross Sea is part of a large embayment of the west Antarctic coast, and is characterized by continental rift basins filled by thick sequences of Cenozoic glaciomarine sediments [Hayes and Frakes et al., 1975; Cooper et al., 1991; Anderson and Bartek, 1992; Hambrey and Barrett 1993; Brancolini et al., 1995a; De Santis et al., 1995].
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De Santis, L., Anderson, J.B., Brancolini, G., Zayatz, I. (1997). Glaciomarine Deposits on the Continental Shelf of Ross Sea, Antarctica. In: Davies, T.A., et al. Glaciated Continental Margins. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5820-6_41
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