Orientation Patterns of Bedding, Faults, and Veins in AND-1B Sedimentary Rock Core, McMurdo Ice Shelf Project: Significance for Terror Rift Evolution, Western Ross Sea, Antarctica

• Main Author: Baumgartner, Lauren Renee
• Other Authors: Wilson, Terry J.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The Ohio State University 2010
• Subjects: Antarctica; McMurdo Ice Shelf project; Natural Fractures; stereonet; McMurdo Ice Shelf; Ross Sea; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/47380

The McMurdo Ice Shelf project recovered 1285 m of Neogene sedimentary rock core from the Victoria Land rift basin, Antarctica. The core contains over 1475 natural fractures of faults, veins, and clastic dikes. This study measured and mapped the attitudes and locations of bedding and natural fracture...