The Shackleton Range (East Antarctica): an alien block at the rim of Gondwana?

Abstract The Shackleton Range is a truncated Pan-African Orogen situated at the Weddell Sea margin of East Antarctica. It almost exclusively consists of basement rocks exposed at an elevated, escarpment-bound palaeosurface and is covered locally by patchy remnants of Ordovician, Permian and, controv...

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Published in:Geological Magazine
Main Authors: KROHNE, NICOLE, LISKER, FRANK, KLEINSCHMIDT, GEORG, KLÜGEL, ANDREAS, LÄUFER, ANDREAS, ESTRADA, SOLVEIG, SPIEGEL, CORNELIA
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2016
Subjects:
Geology
Weddell Sea
East Antarctica
Shackleton
Weddell
Shackleton Range
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756816001011
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0016756816001011

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