Lithospheric structure of an incipient rift basin: Results from receiver function analysis of Bransfield Strait, NW Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Polar Science
• Main Authors: Biryol, C. Berk, Lee, Stephen J., Lees, Jonathan M., Shore, Michael J.
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Receiver function; Lithosphere; Moho; Slab window; Rift basin; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; South Shetland Islands; Bransfield Strait; South Shetland Trench; Antarc*; Polar Science
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/15055

Bransfield Basin (BB), located northwest of the Antarctic Peninsula (AP) and southeast of the South Shetland Islands (SSI), is the most active section of the Antarctic continental margin. The region has long been (50 Ma) a convergent plate boundary where the Phoenix plate was subducting beneath the...