The aeromagnetic method as a tool to identify Cenozoic magmatism in the West Antarctic Rift System beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet - A review; Thiel subglacial volcano as possible source of the ash layer in the WAISCORE

Tectonophysics

Volumn 585, Issue , 2013, Pages 124-136

  Behrendt, John C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Glacier; Magnetic anomaly; Radar ice sounding; Rift; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ASH LAYER; BED TOPOGRAPHY; CENOZOIC MAGMATISM; FIELD DIRECTIONS; GEOPHYSICAL TOOLS; ICE SHEET; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; MAGNETIC DATA; RIFT; RIFT SYSTEMS; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC CENTERS; VOLCANISM;

GLACIERS; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE; RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; SURVEYS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

VOLCANOES;

AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY; CALDERA; CENOZOIC; GLACIER; MAGMATISM; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; PALEOMAGNETISM; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; RIFT ZONE; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANISM;

ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84872955378     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.06.035     Document Type: Review

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