Recent extension driven by mantle upwelling beneath the Admiralty Mountains (East Antarctica)

• Published in: Tectonics
• Main Authors: Faccenna, C., Rossetti, F., Becker, T. W., Danesi, S., Morelli, A.
• Other Authors: Faccenna, C.; Università Roma Tre, Rossetti, F.; Università Roma Tre, Becker, T. W.; University of Southern California, USA, Danesi, S.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Bologna, Bologna, Italia, Morelli, A.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Bologna, Bologna, Italia, Università Roma Tre, University of Southern California, USA, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Bologna, Bologna, Italia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2008
• Subjects: Antarctica; Admiralty Mountains; Extensional Tectonics; Mantle Upwelling; Seismic Tomography; 04. Solid Earth::04.07. Tectonophysics::04.07.02. Geodynamics; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Victoria Land; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2122/4257; https://doi.org/10.1029/2007TC002197

Northern Victoria Land is located at the boundary between an extended, presumably hot, region (West Antarctic Rift System) and the thick, possibly cold, East Antarctic craton. The style and timing of Tertiary deformation along with relationships with the magmatic activity are still unclear, and cont...