A window on West Antarctic crustal boundaries: the junction between the Antarctic Peninsula, the Filchner Block, and Weddell Sea oceanic lithosphere

• Published in: Tectonophysics
• Main Authors: Ferris, Julie K., Vaughan, Alan P.M., King, Edward C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2002
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Beaumont Glacier; Coats Land; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; West Antarctica; Whitmore Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/13329/

A new airborne magnetic survey of the southeastern Antarctic Peninsula and adjacent Weddell Sea embayment (WSE) region suggests a continuity of geological structure between the eastern Antarctic Peninsula and the attenuated continental crust of the Filchner Block. This has implications for the recon...