Identifying major sedimentary basins beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet from aeromagnetic data analysis

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Bell, RE [1 ]
Studinger, M
Karner, G
Finn, CA
Blankenship, DD
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[1] Columbia Univ, Lamont Doherty Earth Observ, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 USA
[2] U S Geolog Survey, Denver Federal Ctr, Denver, CO 80225 USA
[3] Univ Texas Austin, Inst Geophys, John A Katherine G Jackson Sch Geosci, Austin, TX 78712 USA
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美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1007/3-540-32934-X_13
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P [天文学、地球科学];
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In the Ross Sea, large sedimentary basins reflect primarily the major extensional event associated with the Late Cretaceous breakup of Gondwana. Within the Interior Ross Embayment, no similar large basins have been identified to date. We have used aerogravity and Werner deconvolution methods applied to aeromagnetic data to map depth to magnetic basement, which helped delineate three major sedimentary basins, the Bentley Subglacial, Onset, and Trunk D Basins.
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