An early miocene ridge crest-trench collision on the South Scotia Ridge near 36°W

• Published in: Tectonophysics
• Main Authors: Barker, Peter F., Barber, Paul L., King, Edward C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 1984
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Weddell Sea; Scotia Sea; Sandwich Islands; South Sandwich Islands; Weddell; South Orkney Islands; South Scotia Ridge; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/523798/; https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(84)90019-2

Preliminary interpretation of marine geophysical data and geochemical analyses of dredged rocks has led to the identification of a ridge crest-trench collision zone southeast of the South Orkney Islands. The existence of a series of such collision zones along the South Scotia Ridge had earlier been...