Geophysical imaging unveils the largest pull-apart basin in East Antarctica

• Main Authors: Egidio Armadillo, Fausto Ferraccioli, Laura Crispini, Andreas Läufer, Alessandro Ghirotto, Antonia Stefanie Ruppel
• Other Authors: Armadillo, Egidio, Ferraccioli, Fausto, Crispini, Laura, Läufer, Andrea, Ghirotto, Alessandro, Stefanie Ruppel, Antonia
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctica; West Antarctica; Victoria Land; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Transantarctic Mountains; Adare; Wilkes Subglacial Basin; Rennick; Davey; Oates Coast; Adare Basin; Southern Cross Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11567/1024194

West Antarctica hosts one of the largest continental rift systems on Earth, the West Antarctic Rift System (WARS) that forms the lithospheric cradle for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The WARS is known to have experienced several stages of extension starting with distributed/wide mode extension in th...