ANTASed – An Updated Sediment Model for Antarctica

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: Baranov, A., Morelli, Andrea, Chuvaev, A
• Other Authors: Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione Bologna, Bologna, Italia, Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
• Subjects: Astrolabe; Bentley Subglacial Trench; Byrd; Coats Land; Dronning Maud Land; East Antarctica; Jutulstraumen; Ronne Basin; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2122/15266; https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.722699

We compile existing seismic, gravity, radar and magnetic data, together with the subglacial bedrock relief from the BEDMACHINE project, to build the most detailed sediment model for Antarctica. We interpolate these data according to a tectonic map of Antarctica using a statistical kriging method. Ou...