Rift Mechanisms and Thermal Regime of the Lithosphere across Beardmore Glacier Region, Central Transantarctic Mountains, from Magnetotelluric Measurements

• Main Author: Wannamaker, Philip
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: IEDA: US Antarctic Program Data Center 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic Earth Sciences; Magnetotelluric; Potential Field; Antarctica; Solid Earth; Transantarctic Mountains; US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC); Antarctic; East Antarctica; West Antarctica; Beardmore; Beardmore Glacier; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://get.iedadata.org/metadata/iso/600102

Abstract: The investigators will examine competing hypotheses for the mechanism of extension and creation of the Transantarctic Mountains, and evolution of the thermal regimes of rifted West Antarctica and stable East Antarctica using magnetotelluric (MT) profiles. Surrounded almost entirely by ocea...