Origin of the Adventure Subglacial Trench linked to Cenozoic extension in the East Antarctic Craton
The Antarctic plate occupies a unique geodynamic setting being mostly surrounded by divergent or transform margins. Major intracontinental basins and highlands characterize its bedrock, buried under the 34Ma East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS). Their formation atop of the cratonic lithosphere in the int...
Published in: | Tectonophysics |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2016
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11567/988332 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2015.12.011 |