The Wilkes Land Anomaly revisited

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Weihaupt, John G., Van Der Hoeven, Frans G., Chambers, Frederick B., Lorius, Claude, Wyckoff, John W., Castendyk, Devin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2015
• Subjects: Geology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography; Antarctic; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Ross Sea; Victoria Land; Pacific; Wilkes Land; Wilkes Subglacial Basin; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102014000789; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102014000789

Abstract The Wilkes Land Gravity Anomaly, first reported in 1959–60, is located in northern Victoria Land in the Pacific Ocean sector of East Antarctica, 1400 km west of the Ross Sea and centred at 70°00'S-140°00'E. Initially described on the basis of ground-based seismic and gravity surve...