Extent of the Antarctic Continent

Group velocities of earthquake-generated Love and Rayleigh waves for certain transantarctic paths are abnormally high when compared with data from other continents. For these paths, the data indicate that at most only three-fourths of the antarctic ice sheet is underlain by continent, the remaining...

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Published in:Science
Main Authors: Press, Frank, Dewart, Gilbert
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1959
Subjects:
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Ice Sheet
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.129.3347.462
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.129.3347.462
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Summary:Group velocities of earthquake-generated Love and Rayleigh waves for certain transantarctic paths are abnormally high when compared with data from other continents. For these paths, the data indicate that at most only three-fourths of the antarctic ice sheet is underlain by continent, the remaining area being oceanic in structure.

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