Paleogeographic Evolution of the Ross Sector During the Cenozoic
The Cenozoic and perhaps latest Mesozoic history of the Ross Sector was dominated by a major tectonic episode during which the Transantarctic Mountains and Ross embayment developed. A Transantarctic Passage between East and West Antarctica may have provided for a Pacific Atlantic marine connection e...
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Department of Geology, Northern Illinois University
1979
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Summary: | The Cenozoic and perhaps latest Mesozoic history of the Ross Sector was dominated by a major tectonic episode during which the Transantarctic Mountains and Ross embayment developed. A Transantarctic Passage between East and West Antarctica may have provided for a Pacific Atlantic marine connection early in the history of the Victoria Orogeny. Both terrestrial and marine environments existed under early temperate and subsequent glacial climatic conditions. |
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