Structure and age of volcanic fissures on Mount Morning: A new constraint on Neogene to contemporary stress in the West Antarctic Rift, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 1071-1088

  Paulsen, Timothy S ^a   Wilson, Terry J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE PROCESS; AGE DIFFERENCES; ANTARCTICA; CHANGING TRENDS; COOLING AGE; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; DIFFERENTIAL STRESS; GLACIAL LOADINGS; HORIZONTAL STRESS; LITHOSPHERIC; NEO GENES; NEOTECTONICS; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; RIFT BASIN; RIFT SYSTEMS; STRESS DIRECTIONS; STRESS REGIME; STRESS REORIENTATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; VOLCANO FLANKS;

ALIGNMENT; GEOPHYSICS; UNLOADING; VOLCANOES;

MOUNTINGS;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; FISSURE; GEODYNAMICS; NEOGENE; NEOTECTONICS; PLATE TECTONICS; PLEISTOCENE; RIFTING; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; VOLCANISM;

ANTARCTICA; CAPE ROBERTS; EAST ANTARCTICA; VICTORIA LAND;

EID: 69949108937     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26333.1     Document Type: Article

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