Davey, Fred J. and De Santis, Laura (2006): A multi-phase rifting model for the Victoria Land Basin, western Ross Sea

Leg/Site/Hole:
DSDP 28
DSDP 28 270
DSDP 28 271
DSDP 28 272
DSDP 28 273
Identifier:
2006-059553
georefid
Creator:
Davey, Fred J.
Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
author
De Santis, Laura
Federal Institute of Geosciences and Natural Resources, Federal Republic of Germany
author
Identification:
A multi-phase rifting model for the Victoria Land Basin, western Ross Sea
2006
In: Fuetterer, Dieter K. (editor), Damaske, Detlef (editor), Kleinschmidt, Georg (editor), Miller, Hubert (editor), Tessensohn, Franz (editor), Antarctica; contributions to global earth sciences; proceedings
Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany
9
303-308
The Victoria Land Basin is a deep rift margin basin that lies along the Ross Sea margin of the Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. Seismic data indicates that the 140 km wide basin contains some 14 km of sediments. Drilling results from the flank of the basin suggests that most of these sediments are late Eocene or younger in age. Four major sequences are defined on the seismic data by angular unconformities indicating several rift episodes. Constraints on the basin formation are derived using flexural cantilever models. (modif. j. abstr.)
English
Coverage:Geographic coordinates:
North:-71.3000
West:162.0000East: -158.0000
South:-78.3000
Structural geology; Stratigraphy; Applied geophysics; Antarctica; basins; Cenozoic; continental margin; cores; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DSDP Site 270; DSDP Site 271; DSDP Site 272; DSDP Site 273; geophysical methods; geophysical profiles; geophysical surveys; Leg 28; lithofacies; Oligocene; Paleogene; plate tectonics; rifting; Ross Sea; sedimentary basins; seismic methods; seismic profiles; seismic stratigraphy; sequence stratigraphy; Southern Ocean; surveys; tectonics; Tertiary; Victoria Land;
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