Abbot Ice Shelf, structure of the Amundsen Sea continental margin and the southern boundary of the Bellingshausen Plate seaward of West Antarctica

• Published in: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
• Main Authors: Cochran, James R, Tinto, Kirsty J, Bell, Robin E
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2015
• Subjects: Research Articles; Abbot Ice Shelf; Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Byrd; The Antarctic; Thurston; Thurston Island; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4681458/; https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GC005570

Inversion of NASA Operation IceBridge airborne gravity over the Abbot Ice Shelf in West Antarctica for subice bathymetry defines an extensional terrain made up of east-west trending rift basins formed during the early stages of Antarctica/Zealandia rifting. Extension is minor, as rifting jumped nort...