Thurston Island (West Antarctica) between Gondwana subduction and continental separation: a multi-stage evolution revealed by apatite thermochronology

• Published in: Tectonics
• Main Authors: Zundel, Maximilian, Spiegel, Cornelia, Mehling, André, Lisker, Frank, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Monien, Patrick, Klügel, Andreas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; West Antarctica; Pacific; Thurston; Thurston Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/520538/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/520538/1/Zundel_et_al-2019-Tectonics.pdf; https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018TC005150

The first low‐temperature thermochronological data from Thurston Island, West Antarctica, provide insights into the poorly constrained thermo‐tectonic evolution of the paleo‐Pacific margin of Gondwana since the Late Paleozoic. Here we present the first apatite fission track (AFT) and apatite (U‐Th‐S...