Antarctic Plate

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1Nazca Plate / Pacific Plate / North American Plate / Antarctic Plate / Cocos Plate / Caribbean Plate / Arabian Plate / African Plate / Juan de Fuca Plate / Geology / Plate tectonics / Tectonic plates

JS May 11, 2015, Reading a Map: Plates in Motion

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Language: English - Date: 2015-04-23 18:04:20
2Seafloor spreading / Continent-ocean boundary / Mid-ocean ridge / Rift / Oceanic crust / Non-volcanic passive margins / Passive margin / Geology / Plate tectonics / Continental crust

AUSTRALIAN-ANTARCTIC RIFTING Australian-Antarctic rifting J. M. Whittaker1, 3, R. D. Müller1 and A. Goncharov2 Keywords:

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Language: English - Date: 2010-03-02 18:17:29
3Continental crust / Antarctica / Bouguer anomaly / Mid-ocean ridge / Rift / Bellingshausen Plate / Marie Byrd Land / Geology / Plate tectonics / West Antarctic Rift

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Language: English - Date: 2010-03-02 18:16:01
4Tectonics / Structure of the Earth / Subduction / Mid-ocean ridge / Slab / Mantle / Dynamic topography / Convergent boundary / Mantle plume / Geology / Plate tectonics / Geodynamics

Geol. Soc. Australia Spec. Publ. 22, and Geol. Soc. America Spec. Pap), 417–429 Origin of the Australian–Antarctic Discordance from an ancient slab and mantle wedge M. GURNIS1* AND R. D. MÜLLER2 1

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Language: English - Date: 2010-03-02 22:58:21
5Mesozoic / Permian / Supercontinents / Transantarctic Mountains / Antarctica / Cimmerian Plate / West Antarctic Rift / Gondwana / East Antarctic craton / Geology / Physical geography / Historical geology

ated surfaces suggest deposition from wet-based terrestrial glaciers. Black shales of the overlying Mackellar Formation are in sharp contact with diamictite and sandstone of the Pagoda Formation. Lonestones are extremely

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 17:37:20
6Glaciology / Extreme points of Earth / Volcanology / Rift / Structural geology / Antarctica / Transantarctic Mountains / Subglacial eruption / Subglacial volcano / Geology / Physical geography / Plate tectonics

How important is late Cenozoic tectonic and volcanic activity in the west antarctic rift system on the dynamics of the west antarctic ice sheet? JOHN C. BEHRENDT, U.S. Geological Survey, Federal Center, Denver, Colorado

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 17:40:33
7Physical geography / Geology of Australia / Petroleum / Reflection seismology / Passive margin / Continental shelf / Sedimentary rock / Paleozoic / Geology of the Falkland Islands / Geology / Plate tectonics / Historical geology

across the shelf (see Dunbar, Dehn, and Leventer, Antarctic this issue). This distribution was first noted by Truesdale and Kellogg (1969), who attributed it to less extensive summer sea ice cover in the western Ross Sea

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 04:12:07
8Seismology / Thiel Mountains / Continental collision / Transantarctic Mountains / Orogeny / Paleomagnetism / West Antarctica / Pagano Nunatak / Geology / Plate tectonics / Geodynamics

cesses along the Antarctic Peninsula margin. Argon-40/argon-39 age spectrum studies have already indicated a Paleozoic age for the blue schist metamorphism on Smith Island (Grunow, Dalziel, and Harrison 1987), but no age

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 15:40:12
9Geophysical survey / Plate tectonics / Structural geology / Aeromagnetic survey / Geomagnetism / Mineral exploration / Rift / Ice shelf / Antarctica / Physical geography / Geology / Geophysics

Marine geology and geophysics Marine magnetic and aeromagnetic evidence for late Cenozoic submarine and subglacial volcanism in the west antarctic rift system JOHN C. BEHRENDT, U.S. Geological Survey, Regional Geophysics

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10Antarctic region / Antarctica / Continents / Poles / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Ice age / Plate tectonics / Ice shelf / Antarctic Peninsula / Physical geography / Earth / British Antarctic Territory

In summary, this study provides us with a detailed image of the lower crust beneath an extensional basin located within a large-scale continental rift zone. Assuming that the original crustal thickness beneath the Ross S

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 18:58:47
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