Costa Recta beach, Deception Island, West Antarctica: A retreated scarp of a submarine fault?

• Main Author: Caselli, Alberto T.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Active tectonics; Fault escarpment; Straight coast; Tectonic geomorphology; Uplifted terraces; coastal landform; fault scarp; submarine feature; Antarctica; Arctic and Antarctic; Deception Island; South Shetland Islands; World; Antarctic; Arctic; Argentina; Costa Recta; Macaroni Point; Recta; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Ice cap
• Online Access: https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_09541020_v17_n3_p418_FernandezIbanez; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_09541020_v17_n3_p418_FernandezIbanez

Deception Island (South Shetlands, Antarctica) is one of the most active volcanoes in Antarctica, having erupted recently in 1967, 1969 and 1970, damaging scientific stations on the island. It is also seismically very active. The island has attracted the attention of many researchers as it constitut...