The transition from an active to a passive margin (SW end of the South Shetland Trench, Antarctic Peninsula)

• Published in: Tectonophysics
• Main Authors: Jabaloy, Antonio, Balanyá, Juan Carlos, Barnolas, Antonio, Galindo Zaldívar, Jesús, Hernández-Molina, Francisco J., Maldonado, Andrés, Martínez-Martínez, José Miguel, Rodríguez-Fernández, José, Sanz de Galdeano, Carlos, Somoza, Luis, Suriñach, Emma, Vázquez, Juan Tomás
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2003
• Subjects: Subduction zone; Active margin; Trench termination; Tip-line; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctic; South Shetland Trench; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/19044; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00060-X

22 pages, 10 figures, 1 table. The lateral ending of the South Shetland Trench is analysed on the basis of swath bathymetry and multichannel seismic profiles in order to establish the tectonic and stratigraphic features of the transition from an northeastward active to a southwestward passive margin...