Joint geophysical and petrological models for the lithosphere structure of the Antarctic Peninsula continental margin

• Published in: Geophysical Journal International
• Main Authors: Yegorova, Tamara, Bakhmutov, Vladimir, Janik, Tomasz, Grad, Marek
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2011
• Subjects: Geodynamics and Tectonics; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Anvers; Anvers Island; Bransfield Strait; Drake Passage; Pacific; Shackleton; South Shetland Islands; South Shetland Trench; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/184/1/90; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04867.x

The Antarctic Peninsula (AP) is a composite magmatic arc terrane formed at the Pacific margin of Gondwana. Through the late Mesozoic and Cenozoic subduction has stopped progressively from southwest to northeast as a result of a series of ridge trench collisions. Subduction may be active today in the...