Deciphering tectonic phases of the Amundsen Sea Embayment shelf, West Antarctica, From a magnetic anomaly grid

Tectonophysics

Volumn 585, Issue , 2013, Pages 113-123

  Gohl, Karsten ^a   Denk, Astrid ^a,b,d   Eagles, Graeme ^c   Wobbe, Florian ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aeromagnetics; Bellingshausen Plate; Data processing; Gondwana breakup; Pine Island Bay; West Antarctic Rift System

Indexed keywords

AEROMAGNETIC DATA; AEROMAGNETICS; AMUNDSEN SEA; ANOMALY PATTERNS; ANTARCTICA; BASEMENT ROCKS; BELLINGSHAUSEN PLATE; BOUNDARY ZONES; CHATHAM RISE; CRUSTAL BOUNDARIES; EULER DECONVOLUTION; FLOW PATH; ICE STREAMS; KEY LOCATION; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; MAGNETIC SOURCES; MARIE BYRD LAND; NEW ZEALAND; PINE ISLAND BAY; PLATE BOUNDARIES; RIFT SYSTEMS; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRUCTURAL LINEAMENTS; TECTONIC PROCESS;

DATA PROCESSING; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SHIPS;

TECTONICS;

AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; EMPLACEMENT; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; GONDWANA; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFTING; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

AMUNDSEN SEA; ANTARCTICA; CHATHAM RISE; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PINE ISLAND BAY; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84872906348     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.06.036     Document Type: Article

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