Development of kinematic partitioning within a pure-shear dominated dextral transpression zone: the southern Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica

• Published in: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
• Main Author: Curtis, M. L.
• Other Authors: Strachan, R.E., Dewey, J.F.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of London 1998
• Subjects: West Antarctica; Ellsworth Mountains; Heritage Range; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503979/; https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.135.01.19

The Heritage Range of the southern Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica, is composed of Cambrian to Permian sedimentary and volcanic rocks, which were deformed during the Permo-Triassic Gondwanian orogeny. The structural grain of the Heritage Range exhibits a previously unrecognized 18° swing from 3...