THE PRINCIPAL FEATURES OF THE GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF ANTARCTICA (OSNOVNYE CHERTY GEOLOGICHESKOI STRUKTURY ANTARKTIDY)

A combination of Gondwanian and Pacific geostructures is the outstanding feature in the area of the general structure of Antarctica's tectonosphere. It predominates in a Gondwanian type platform, resembling those of Africa, South America, Australia and India. Similarly to them, the Antarctic pl...

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Main Author: Klimov,L. V.
Other Authors: NAVAL INTELLIGENCE COMMAND WASHINGTON D C TRANSLATION DIV
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1968
Subjects:
Geology
Geochemistry and Mineralogy
*STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY
ANTARCTIC REGIONS
GEOLOGIC AGE DETERMINATION
GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS
SEDIMENTARY ROCK
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
MOUNTAINS
VOLCANOES
TRANSFORMATIONS
FAULTS(GEOLOGY)
CARBON
USSR
*GEOMORPHOLOGY
TRANSLATIONS
Antarctic
Pacific
Sovetskaya
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0679325
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Summary:A combination of Gondwanian and Pacific geostructures is the outstanding feature in the area of the general structure of Antarctica's tectonosphere. It predominates in a Gondwanian type platform, resembling those of Africa, South America, Australia and India. Similarly to them, the Antarctic platform is distinguished, on one hand, by the heterogeneity of its substructure, which has been subjected to complex transformations over large areas, not only during the pre-Cambrian, but also during the early Paleozoic era, and on the other hand, by the peculiar formational composition of the middle Paleozoic - lower Mesozoic deposits of the covering strata, almost wholly continental in character and largely carboniferous, with numerous remnants of 'Gondwanian' flora. (Author) Trans. of Sovetskaya Antarkticheskaya Ekspeditsiya. Informatsionnyi Byulleten (USSR) n65 p30-43 1967.

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