The Ellsworth Mountains: Critical and Enduringly Enigmatic. In Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World

• Main Author: I. W. D. Dalziel
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Craddock; Ellsworth Mountains; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.550.9897; http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1047/srp/srp004/of2007-1047srp004.pdf

Abstract The Ellsworth Mountains, first mapped under the leadership of Campbell Craddock, pose critical geological enigmas, solved and unsolved. The isolation of the mountains, their abrupt structural terminations and Paleozoic stratigraphic affinities are explained by rotation from the cratonic mar...