The lithospheric setting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, edited by

• Main Authors: I. W. D. Dalziel, L. A. Lawver
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; East Antarctica; West Antarctica; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Pacific; Weddell; South Pole; Byrd; Marie Byrd Land; Thurston; Thurston Island; Whitmore Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; South pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.556.2662

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...