Eocene to Miocene geometry of the West Antarctic Rift System

• Main Authors: R. D. Müller, K. Gohl, S. C. Cande, A. Goncharov, A. V. Golynsky
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Adare; Adare Trough; Antarctic; Bellingshausen Sea; Bentley Subglacial Trench; Byrd; Byrd Subglacial Basin; De Gerlache; Gerlache; Pacific; Ross Sea; South Shetland Trench; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.657.1052; http://earthbyte.org/people/dietmar/Pdf/Muller_etal_EW_Ant_rift_system_AJES2007.pdf

Tectonic models for the Late Cretaceous/Tertiary evolution of the West Antarctic Rift System range from hundreds of kilometres of extension to negligible strike-slip displacement and are based on a variety of observations, as well as kinematic and geodynamic models. Most data constraining these mode...