Continental rift to back-arc basin: Jurassic-Cretaceous stratigraphical and structural evolution of the Larsen Basin, Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Journal of the Geological Society
• Main Author: Hathway, B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of London 2000
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Western Basin; Larsen Basin; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20573/; https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs.157.2.417

The Larsen Basin developed in Jurassic times as a result of continental rifting during the early stages of Gondwana break‐up. Lower‐?Upper Jurassic non‐marine sedimentary and volcanic rocks constitute a syn‐rift megasequence recording initial largely amagmatic extension and subsequent widespread ext...