The tectonic structure and seismicity of West Antarctica from a regional seismic deployment

• Main Author: Dunham, Charles Kingsley
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Bentley Subglacial Trench; Byrd; Byrd Subglacial Basin; Haag; Pine Island Glacier; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Iceberg*; Pine Island
• Online Access: https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/28982/; https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/28982/1/Dunham_CKD_Earth_and_Environment_PhD_2020.pdf

In this thesis I investigate the tectonic structure and seismicity of West Antarctica using recently deployed seismic networks. To study the crustal thickness of West Antarctica's constituent tectonic blocks, I model crustal shear-wave velocity structure using a joint inversion of receiver func...