Active tectonics and morphostructure at the northern margin of central Bransfield Basin, Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island (South Shetland Islands)

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: González-Casado, J.M., López-Martínez, J., Durán, J.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1999
• Subjects: Geology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography; South Shetland Islands; Livingston Island; Hurd; Hurd peninsula; Antarctic Science
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102099000413; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102099000413

Geophysical, structural, geomorphological, topographical and bathymetric data from the Hurd Peninsula area, Livingston Island, South Shetland archipelago, suggest that an extensional fault system, orientated NW–SE, together with a conjugate group of NE–SW normal oblique-slip faults, control the land...