Recent extension driven by mantle upwelling beneath the Admiralty Mountains (East Antarctica)

Tectonics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Faccenna, Claudio ^a   Rossetti, Federico ^a   Becker, Thorsten W ^b   Danesi, Stefania ^c   Morelli, Andrea ^c  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; MAGMATISM; MANTLE STRUCTURE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; UPWELLING;

ADMIRALTY MOUNTAINS; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; TRANSANTARCTIC MOUNTAINS; VICTORIA LAND;

EID: 55949133473     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007TC002197     Document Type: Article

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