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 …

Snowballs in Africa: sectioning a long-lived Neoproterozoic carbonate platform and its bathyal foreslope (NW Namibia)

PF Hoffman, GP Halverson, DP Schrag, JA Higgins… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Otavi Group is a 1.5–3.5-km-thick epicontinental marine carbonate succession of
Neoproterozoic age, exposed in an 800-km-long Ediacaran− Cambrian fold belt that rims …

A dynamic saline groundwater system mapped beneath an Antarctic ice stream

CD Gustafson, K Key, MR Siegfried, JP Winberry… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Antarctica's fast-flowing ice streams drain the ice sheet, with their velocity modulated by
subglacial water systems. Current knowledge of these water systems is limited to the …

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 …

Depth extent and kinematics of faulting in the southern Tanganyika rift, Africa

A Lavayssière, C Drooff, C Ebinger, R Gallacher… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Unusually deep earthquakes occur beneath rift segments with and without surface
expressions of magmatism in the East African Rift system. The Tanganyika rift is part of the …

Trans-crustal structural control of CO2-rich extensional magmatic systems revealed at Mount Erebus Antarctica

GJ Hill, PE Wannamaker, V Maris, JA Stodt… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Erebus volcano, Antarctica, with its persistent phonolite lava lake, is a classic example of an
evolved, CO2-rich rift volcano. Seismic studies provide limited images of the magmatic …

[HTML][HTML] On Archean craton growth and stabilisation: Insights from lithospheric resistivity structure of the Superior Province

GJ Hill, EA Roots, BM Frieman, R Haugaard… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
The nature of lithospheric evolution and style of the driving tectonic processes during the
growth and stabilisation of continental crust in the Archean remain enigmatic. The hotter …

Late Cenozoic unification of East and West Antarctica

R Granot, J Dyment - Nature Communications, 2018 - nature.com
The kinematic evolution of the West Antarctic rift system has important consequences for
regional and global geodynamics. However, due to the lack of Neogene seafloor spreading …

Anomalously high geothermal flux near the South Pole

TA Jordan, C Martin, F Ferraccioli, K Matsuoka… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Melting at the base of the Antarctic Ice Sheet influences ice dynamics and our ability to
recover ancient climatic records from deep ice cores. Basal melt rates are affected by …