Giant slide deposits from a Mesozoic fore-arc basin, Alexander Island, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Macdonald, David I. M., Moncrieff, Andrew C. M., Butterworth, Peter J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of America 1993
• Subjects: Alexander Island; Antarctic; Tilting; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/517885/; https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1993)021<1047:GSDFAM>2.3.CO;2

Several very large synsedimentary slide units exist in the well-exposed Mesozoic fore-arc sequence of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The largest single exposure, which is at least 440 m thick and more than 21 by 6 km in area, forms part of a unit that has a volume of as much as 300 km3. These units a...