The Auriga Nunataks shear zone: Mesozoic transfer faulting and arc deformation in northwest Palmer Land, Antarctica

• Published in: Tectonics
• Main Authors: Vaughan, Alan P. M., Millar, Ian L., Thistlewood, Laurence
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 1999
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; West Antarctica; Palmer Land; Auriga Nunataks; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503822/; https://doi.org/10.1029/1999TC900008

The Auriga Nunataks shear zone places new tectonic and temporal constraints on the Mesozoic evolution of West Antarctica. The shear zone is a long-lived, arc-orthogonal, ductile transfer fault that preserves a history of regional Mesozoic compressional basement deformation and extensional arc pluton...