Middle Cambrian rift-related volcanism in the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica: tectonic implications for the palaeo-Pacific margin of Gondwana

• Published in: Tectonophysics
• Main Authors: Curtis, Michael L., Leat, Philip T., Riley, Teal R., Storey, Bryan C., Millar, Ian L., Randall, Darren E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 1999
• Subjects: Weddell Sea; East Antarctica; West Antarctica; Pacific; Weddell; Ellsworth Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503166/; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00033-5

The Ellsworth Mountains of West Antarctica represent part of a displaced terrane once situated along the palaeo-Pacific margin of Gondwana, prior to supercontinent break-up, adjacent to South Africa and the Weddell Sea coast of East Antarctica. Middle Cambrian sedimentary rocks of the southern Ellsw...