Gondwanian age dextral transpression and spatial kinematic partitioning within the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica

• Published in: Tectonics
• Main Author: Curtis, Michael L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 1997
• Subjects: West Antarctica; The Sentinel; Ellsworth Mountains; Heritage Range; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514450/; https://doi.org/10.1029/96TC01418

The Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica, consist of two mountain ranges; the Sentinel, and Heritage ranges. The more southerly Heritage Range is composed of a lower Paleozoic sedimentary and volcanic rock sequence, deformed during a single major deformation event in the early Mesozoic. This Gondwan...