The extent of the West Antarctic Rift System into the Amundsen Sea Embayment: New indications by Curie depth estimates and geothermal gradients

• Main Authors: Dziadek, Ricarda, Gohl, Karsten, Kaul, Norbert
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Amundsen Sea; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Bellingshausen Sea; Ice Sheet; Marie Byrd Land; Pine Island; Pine Island Glacier; Ross Sea; Thwaites Glacier
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/38248/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.45672

The West Antarctic Rift System (WARS) provides a key component to Antarctica's tectonic evolution. The system's expansion is thought to progress from the Ross Sea to the Bellingshausen Sea and Amundsen Sea, where smaller rift arms seem to spread more diffusely. The rift troughs provide pat...