Geological and tectonic evolution of the Transantarctic Mountains, from ancient craton to recent enigma

JW Goodge - Gondwana Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Transantarctic Mountains (TAM) are one of Earth's great mountain belts and
are a fundamental physiographic feature of Antarctica. They are continental-scale, traverse a …

Antarctica and supercontinent evolution: historical perspectives, recent advances and unresolved issues

SL Harley, ICW Fitzsimons, Y Zhao - Geological Society, London …, 2013 - lyellcollection.org
The Antarctic rock record spans some 3.5 billion years of history, and has made important
contributions to our understanding of how Earth's continents assemble and disperse through …

Temperature, lithosphere‐asthenosphere boundary, and heat flux beneath the Antarctic Plate inferred from seismic velocities

M An, DA Wiens, Y Zhao, M Feng… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We estimate the upper mantle temperature of the Antarctic Plate based on the thermoelastic
properties of mantle minerals and S velocities using a new 3‐D shear velocity model, AN1 …

A large West Antarctic Ice Sheet explains early Neogene sea-level amplitude

JW Marschalek, L Zurli, F Talarico, T Van de Flierdt… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Early to Middle Miocene sea-level oscillations of approximately 40–60 m estimated
from far-field records,–are interpreted to reflect the loss of virtually all East Antarctic ice …

Geothermal heat flow in Antarctica: current and future directions

A Burton-Johnson, R Dziadek, C Martin - The Cryosphere, 2020 - tc.copernicus.org
Antarctic geothermal heat flow (GHF) affects the temperature of the ice sheet, determining its
ability to slide and internally deform, as well as the behaviour of the continental crust …

High geothermal heat flux measured below the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

AT Fisher, KD Mankoff, SM Tulaczyk, SW Tyler… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
The geothermal heat flux is a critical thermal boundary condition that influences the melting,
flow, and mass balance of ice sheets, but measurements of this parameter are difficult to …

A geothermal heat flux map of Antarctica empirically constrained by seismic structure

W Shen, DA Wiens, AJ Lloyd… - Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The geothermal heat flux (GHF) is an important boundary condition for modeling the
movement of the Antarctic ice sheet but is difficult to measure systematically at a continental …

A new volcanic province: an inventory of subglacial volcanoes in West Antarctica

MW de Vries, RG Bingham, AS Hein - 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The West Antarctic Ice Sheet overlies the West Antarctic Rift System about which,
due to the comprehensive ice cover, we have only limited and sporadic knowledge of …

The crust and upper mantle structure of central and West Antarctica from Bayesian inversion of Rayleigh wave and receiver functions

W Shen, DA Wiens, S Anandakrishnan… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We construct a new seismic model for central and West Antarctica by jointly inverting
Rayleigh wave phase and group velocities along with P wave receiver functions. Ambient …

Seismic structure of the Antarctic upper mantle imaged with adjoint tomography

AJ Lloyd, DA Wiens, H Zhu, J Tromp… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The upper mantle and transition zone beneath Antarctica and the surrounding oceans are
among the poorest‐imaged regions of the Earth's interior. Over the last 15 years, several …