Surface Wave Inversion of the Upper Mantle Velocity Structure in the Ross Sea Region, Western Antarctica

• Main Author: Rinke, James D.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks@CWU 2011
• Subjects: Antactica; Ross Sea; Mantle; tectonics; seismicity; Geology; Geomorphology; Geophysics and Seismology; Tectonics and Structure; Antarctic; Byrd; East Antarctica; Marie Byrd Land; Transantarctic Mountains; Victoria Land; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/1457; https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2482&context=etd

The Ross Sea in Western Antarctica is the locale of several extensional basins formed during Cretaceous to Paleogene rifting. Several seismic studies along the Transantarctic Mountains and Victoria Land Basin’s Terror Rift have shown a general pattern of fast seismic velocities in East Antarctica an...