A preliminary assessment of the hydrocarbon potential of the Larsen Basin, Antarctica

• Published in: Marine and Petroleum Geology
• Main Authors: Macdonald, D.I.M., Barker, Peter F., Garrett, S.W., Ineson, J.R., Pirrie, D., Storey, B.C., Whitham, A.G., Kinghorn, R.R.F., Marshall, J.E.A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 1988
• Subjects: Weddell Sea; Ross Island; Weddell; Larsen Basin; Antarc*; Antarctica; James Ross Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/521667/; https://doi.org/10.1016/0264-8172(88)90038-4

The Larsen Basin, on the northwest margin of the Weddell Sea, formed as a Mesozoic ensialic basin during Gondwana breakup. Deposition was either in half grabens on the extending Weddell Sea margin, or in a restricted back-arc basin. At the northern end of this basin 5–6 km of sedimentary rock crop o...