The geological history and evolution of West Antarctica

TA Jordan, TR Riley, CS Siddoway - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
West Antarctica has formed the tectonically active margin between East Antarctica and the
Pacific Ocean for almost half a billion years, where it has recorded a dynamic history of …

New maps of global geological provinces and tectonic plates

D Hasterok, JA Halpin, AS Collins, M Hand… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Accurate spatial models of tectonic plates and geological terranes are important for
analyzing and interpreting a wide variety of geoscientific data and developing compositional …

Geothermal heat flux in Antarctica: Assessing models and observations by Bayesian inversion

M Lösing, J Ebbing, W Szwillus - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Geothermal heat flux under the Antarctic ice is one of the least known parameters. Different
methods (based on eg, magnetic or seismic data) have been applied in recent years to …

Geological sketch map and implications for ice flow of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, from integrated aerogeophysical observations

TA Jordan, S Thompson, B Kulessa, F Ferraccioli - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
The geology beneath Thwaites Glacier, the Antarctic glacial catchment most vulnerable to
climate change, is unknown. Thwaites Glacier lies within the West Antarctic Rift System, but …

Sedimentary basins reduce stability of Antarctic ice streams through groundwater feedbacks

L Li, ARA Aitken, MD Lindsay, B Kulessa - Nature Geoscience, 2022 - nature.com
Antarctica preserves Earth's largest ice-sheet, which in response to climate warming, may
lose ice mass and raise sea level by several metres. The ice-sheet bed exerts critical …

Earth tectonics as seen by GOCE-Enhanced satellite gravity gradient imaging

J Ebbing, P Haas, F Ferraccioli, F Pappa, W Szwillus… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Curvature components derived from satellite gravity gradients provide new global views of
Earth's structure. The satellite gravity gradients are based on the GOCE satellite mission and …

[PDF][PDF] 航空地球物理勘探在南极调查中的应用

李筱, 佟晶, 张婉, 姚国涛, 张玄杰 - 物探与化探, 2022 - cgsjournals.com
航空地球物理勘探是认识极地区域构造的重要技术手段. 在回顾和分析南极航空地球物理勘探
发展历史与现状的基础上, 总结归纳了航空地球物理勘探在南极地区取得的主要成果 …

A multiproxy provenance approach to uncovering the assembly of East Gondwana in Antarctica

JA Mulder, JA Halpin, NR Daczko, K Orth… - …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
East Gondwana is generally thought to have assembled through the amalgamation of Indo-
Antarctica and Australo-Antarctica along the Ediacaran–Cambrian Kuunga orogen. The …

Moho depths of Antarctica: Comparison of seismic, gravity, and isostatic results

F Pappa, J Ebbing, F Ferraccioli - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The lithospheric structure of Antarctica is still underexplored. Moho depth estimate studies
are in disagreement by more than 10 km in several regions, including, for example, the …

Antarctic geothermal heat flow model: Aq1

T Stål, AM Reading, JA Halpin… - Geochemistry …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We present a refined map of geothermal heat flow for Antarctica, Aq1, based on multiple
observables. The map is generated using a similarity detection approach by attributing …