Lithospheric structure of an incipient rift basin: Results from receiver function analysis of Bransfield Strait, NW Antarctic Peninsula ...

• Main Authors: Shore, M.J., Lee, S.J., Lees, J.M., Biryol, C.B.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V. 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Bransfield Strait; South Shetland Islands; South Shetland Trench; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17615/3bhr-8642; https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/articles/ww72bm92v

Bransfield Basin (BB), located northwest of the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) and southeast of the South Shetland Islands (SSI), is the most active section of the Antarctic continental margin. The region has long been (50 Ma) a convergent plate boundary where the Phoenix plate was subducting beneath the...