Determining crustal thickness beneath the Transantarctic Mountains and the Wilkes Subglacial Basin using S-wave receiver functions

• Main Authors: Kenyon, Lindsey M., Hansen, Samantha E., Robinson, Delores M., Goodliffe, Andrew M., Nyblade, Andrew A., University of Alabama. Dept. of Geological Sciences
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Electronic Thesis or Dissertation; > thesis; Geophysics; Antarctica; Seismology; Transantarctic Mountains; Wilkes Subglacial Basin; Alabama; Antarctic; Long Mountain; Ross Sea; West Antarctica; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://purl.lib.ua.edu/120433

The Transantarctic Mountains (TAMs) are a ~4,000 km long mountain range, with elevations up to 4,500 m, which separate East and West Antarctica. Given the lack of compressional structures in the TAMs, the origin for these mountains is unclear, and many possible uplift mechanisms have been suggested....