The characteristics of geophysical field and tectonic evolution in the Bransfield Strait

• Main Authors: Bochu, Yao, Guangyu, Wang, Bangyan, Chen, Shengyuan, Chen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polar Research Institute of China - PRIC 1995
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; South Shetland Islands; Bransfield Strait; Bransfield Trough; Advances in Polar Science; Antarc*; Polar Science
• Online Access: http://library.arcticportal.org/2088/; http://library.arcticportal.org/2088/1/A501.001.pdf

Having analyzed the data collected by our survey ship "Ocean IV" in the Bransfield Strait in 1991, we recognized that the geomorphology, gravity and magnetic anomalies trending NE direction along bandings. The sediments in the Bransfield Strait can be subdivided into two sequences: the fir...