Potential for Drilling Cainozoic Sediments below the Ekström Ice Shelf, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica

• Main Authors: Kuhn, Gerhard, Kristoffersen, Yngve, Eisen, Olaf, Jokat, Wilfried
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Dronning Maud Land; East Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Weddell Sea
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/39058/; http://isaes2015goa.in/docs/XII%20ISAES%202015%20Abstract%20Volume.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.46325

The Explora Wedge (Hinz and Krause, 1982; Hinz et al., 2004) represents a prominent morphological and structural feature of Earth crust in the north eastern Weddell Sea. Marine geophysical data reveal that it constitutes East Antarctica's volcanic rift margin, with seaward dipping reflectors bu...