Plateau collapse model for the transantarctic mountains-West Antarctic rift system: Insights from numerical experiments

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 687-690

  Bialas, Robert W ^a   Buck, W Roger ^a   Studinger, Michael ^a   Fitzgerald, Paul G ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Numerical modeling; Plateau collapse; Rifting; Transantarctic Mountains; West Antarctic Rift System

Indexed keywords

PLATEAU COLLAPSE; TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS; WEST ANTARCTIC RIFT SYSTEM;

GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TOPOGRAPHY;

LANDFORMS;

COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRETACEOUS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATEAU; RIFTING;

ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 34548076000     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23825A.1     Document Type: Article

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