Pangea rifting shaped the East Antarctic landscape

• Published in: Tectonics
• Main Authors: Maritati, A, Danisik, M, Halpin, JA, Whittaker, JM, Aitken, ARA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Amer Geophysical Union 2020
• Subjects: East Antarctica; topography; thermochronology; Antarctic; Bunger Hills; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/35159/; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/35159/1/140999%20-%20Pangea%20rifting%20shaped%20the%20East%20Antarctic%20landscape.pdf

East Antarctica remains one of the few continental regions on Earth where an understanding of the origin and causal processes responsible for topographic relief is largely missing. Low‐temperature thermochronology studies of exposed Precambrian basement revealed discrete episodes of cooling and denu...