Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Exhumation and tectonic history of inaccessible subglacial interior East Antarctica from thermochronology on glacial erratics

  • Paul G. Fitzgerald,
  • John W. Goodge

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33791-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Glacially transported igneous rocks eroded from the deep interior of ice-covered East Antarctica constrain a remarkable episodic cooling and exhumation history that helps unravel its mysterious tectonic evolution over the last 500 million years.