Transpression and tectonic exhumation in the Heimefrontfjella, western orogenic front of the East African/Antarctic Orogen, revealed by quartz textures of high strain domains

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Wilfried Bauer, Heinrich Siemes, Gerhard Spaeth, Joachim Jacobs
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2016
• Subjects: Dronning Maud Land; quartz microfabrics; X-ray texture goniometry; shear zones; mylonites; geo; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Heimefrontfjella; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v35.25420; https://doaj.org/article/641166ba14b34e8d936a2306f82ad10f

The metamorphic basement of the Heimefrontfjella in western Dronning Maud Land (Antarctica) forms the western margin of the major ca. 500 million year old East African/East Antarctic Orogen that resulted from the collision of East Antarctica and greater India with the African cratons. The boundary b...