This special issue of Global and Planetary Change contains 11 contributions dealing with
various aspects of the Cenozoic West Antarctic Rift System. During the last two decades …

The landscape of the Transantarctic Mountains is the result of the coupled evolution of the
West Antarctic rift system and the East Antarctic ice-sheet. Studies of this glacial–tectonic …

Abstract The West Antarctic rift system started to become active during the early to mid-
Cenozoic, roughly at the same time that the East Antarctic ice sheet developed. Geological …

Abstract The Cenozoic West Antarctic rift system, characterized by Cenozoic bimodal alkalic
volcanic rocks, extends over a largely ice-covered area, from the Ross Sea nearly to the …

This special issue on bAntarctic Climate Evolution—view from the marginQ presents results
from modelling studies and reports on geoscience data aimed at improving our …

Technical advances in the study of ice-free parts of Antarctica can provide quantitative
records that are useful for constraining and refining models of ice sheet evolution and …

Deep‐sea drilling in the Antarctic region (Deep‐Sea Drilling Project legs 28, 29, 35, and 36)
has provided many new data about the development of circum‐Antarctic circulation and the …

A robust collection of seismic and geomorphic data is used to examine the evolution of the
Antarctic Ice Sheet within the Ross Sea Embayment. We use geomorphic data to reconstruct …

Antarctica consists of two geologically distinct provinces, a Precambrian craton in the
eastern hemisphere, and a younger series of mobile belts south of the Pacific Ocean. Unlike …

The active West Antarctic Rift System, which extends from the continental shelf of the Ross
Sea, beneath the Ross Ice Shelf and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is comparable in size to …