The lithospheric setting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, edited by
Antarctica consists of two geologically distinct provinces, a Precambrian craton in the eastern hemisphere, and a younger series of mobile belts south of the Pacific Ocean. Unlike its land-based counterpart covering the East Antarctic craton, the base of the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) is largel...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.556.2662 2023-05-15T13:59:20+02:00 The lithospheric setting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, edited by I. W. D. Dalziel L. A. Lawver The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2001 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.556.2662 en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.556.2662 Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. https://pangea.stanford.edu/research/Oceans/GES206/readings/Dalziel %26 Lawver 2001.pdf text 2001 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T11:47:23Z Antarctica consists of two geologically distinct provinces, a Precambrian craton in the eastern hemisphere, and a younger series of mobile belts south of the Pacific Ocean. Unlike its land-based counterpart covering the East Antarctic craton, the base of the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) is largely below sea level in the Ross and Weddell embayments. The East Antarctic craton separated from the other southern continents during the Mesozoic fragmentation of the Gondwanaland supercontinent. Since separation, East Antarctica has been near the South Pole and during the immediate past-40 million year history of Cenozoic continental glaciation, Antarctica has remained close to its present position. During the breakup of Gondwanaland, the four major crustal units that comprise the exposed rocks of West Antarctica-the Antarctic Peninsula, Thurston Island, the Ellsworth-Whitmore mountains, and Marie Byrd Land rotated outward from the convergent Pacific margin of the East Antarctic craton as rigid blocks. The driving forces for this relative motion appear to have been a major mantle plume in the case of the Antarctic Peninsula, Ellsworth-Whitmore Text Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Antarctica East Antarctica Ice Sheet Marie Byrd Land South pole South pole Thurston Island West Antarctica Unknown Antarctic The Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula East Antarctica West Antarctica West Antarctic Ice Sheet Pacific Weddell South Pole Byrd Marie Byrd Land ENVELOPE(-130.000,-130.000,-78.000,-78.000) Thurston ENVELOPE(-97.500,-97.500,-71.833,-71.833) Thurston Island ENVELOPE(-99.000,-99.000,-72.167,-72.167) Whitmore Mountains ENVELOPE(-104.000,-104.000,-82.500,-82.500) |
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Antarctica consists of two geologically distinct provinces, a Precambrian craton in the eastern hemisphere, and a younger series of mobile belts south of the Pacific Ocean. Unlike its land-based counterpart covering the East Antarctic craton, the base of the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) is largely below sea level in the Ross and Weddell embayments. The East Antarctic craton separated from the other southern continents during the Mesozoic fragmentation of the Gondwanaland supercontinent. Since separation, East Antarctica has been near the South Pole and during the immediate past-40 million year history of Cenozoic continental glaciation, Antarctica has remained close to its present position. During the breakup of Gondwanaland, the four major crustal units that comprise the exposed rocks of West Antarctica-the Antarctic Peninsula, Thurston Island, the Ellsworth-Whitmore mountains, and Marie Byrd Land rotated outward from the convergent Pacific margin of the East Antarctic craton as rigid blocks. The driving forces for this relative motion appear to have been a major mantle plume in the case of the Antarctic Peninsula, Ellsworth-Whitmore |
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