Crustal architecture of the largest pull-apart basin in East Antarctica unveiled

• Main Authors: Laura Crispini, Fausto Ferraccioli, Egidio Armadillo, Andreas Läufer, and Antonia Ruppel
• Other Authors: Crispini, Laura, Ferraccioli, Fausto, Armadillo, Egidio, Läufer, Andrea, Antonia Ruppel, And
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctica; Transantarctic Mountains; Adare; Wilkes Subglacial Basin; Rennick; Davey; Oates Coast; Adare Basin; Southern Cross Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11567/1024103

The West Antarctic Rift System (WARS) is known to have experienced distributed/wide mode extension in the Cretaceous, followed by narrow mode and variably oblique extension/transtension in the Cenozoic, the latter potentially linked to the onset of oceanic seaoor spreading within the Adare Basin (Da...