Origin of the Adventure Subglacial Trench linked to Cenozoic extension in the East Antarctic Craton

• Published in: Tectonophysics
• Main Authors: CIANFARRA, Paola, SALVINI, Francesco
• Other Authors: Cianfarra, Paola, Salvini, Francesco
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2016
• Subjects: Adventure Subglacial Trench; East Antarctica; intracratonic deformation; strike-slip corridor; Cenozoic tectonics; Antarctic; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; The Antarctic; Wilkes Subglacial Basin; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11567/988332; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2015.12.011

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...