F. SALVINI

The dense fault network that separates the tectonic units of northern Victoria Land to the E from the East Antarctic Craton to the W represents a regionally sized, NNW-SSE trending deformation zone that is also known as the Rennick Graben Fault system (RGF). This long-lived deformation zone is characterized by great structural complexity, with...

Since the beginning of the 1980's northern Victoria Land has been the main geological research area of both, German and Italian Antarctic programmes. In 1995, both teams began a collaborative geological mapping programme under the acronym of GIGAMAP (German-Italian Geological Antarctic MAp Programme) for the entire area of northern Victoria...