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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Main Author: Peter-Noel Webb
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: Department of Geology, Northern Illinois University 1979
Subjects:
Pacific
Transantarctic Mountains
West Antarctica
Antarc*
Antarctica
Memoirs of National Institute of Polar Research
Polar Research
Online Access:https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=1000
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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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