Anomalously High Heat Flow Regions Beneath the Transantarctic Mountains and Wilkes Subglacial Basin in East Antarctica Inferred From Curie Depth

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
• Main Authors: Lowe, M, Mather, B, Green, C, Jordan, TA, Ebbing, J, Larter, R
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2023
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctica; Transantarctic Mountains; Wilkes Subglacial Basin; Rennick; Curie Point; Central Basin; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/195228/; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/195228/3/JGR%20Solid%20Earth%20-%202022%20-%20Lowe%20-%20Anomalously%20High%20Heat%20Flow%20Regions%20Beneath%20the%20Transantarctic%20Mountains%20and%20Wilkes.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jb025423

The Transantarctic Mountains (TAMs) separate the warmer lithosphere of the Cretaceous-Tertiary West Antarctic rift system and the colder and older provinces of East Antarctica. Low velocity zones beneath the TAM imaged in recent seismological studies have been interpreted as warm low-density mantle...