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The Rennick Geodynamic Belt (RGB) is a regionally-sized deformation corridor separating the tectonic units of the Northern Victoria Land (NVL) and of the East Antarctic craton (EAC). It develops along the onland propagation of the Tasman Fracture Zone of the Southern Ocean between Australia and East Antarctica. The RGB is characterized by a...

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According to the classical paradigm of plate tectonics the cratonic area of the inner part of South America is considered tectonically stable. Nevertheless, the role of neotectonics on the shape of the Brazilian landforms has been demonstrated by several authors. In this work we perform a lineament domain analysis to explore the regional...

Faults have a (brittle) deformation zone that can be described as the presence of two distintive zones: an internal Fault core (FC) and an external Fault Damage Zone (FDZ). The FC is characterized by grinding processes that comminute the rock grains to a final grain-size distribution characterized by the prevalence of smaller grains over...

The northern termination of the Transantarctic Mts in North Victoria Land is characterized by a complex architecture deriving from long-lived tectonic activity along major crustal shear zones that have been reactivated several times until Recent. These are both first-order faults, which separate the Wilson, Bowers and Robertson Bay crustal...

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North Victoria Land (NVL), located at the Pacific-Southern Ocean termination of the Transantarctic Mountains (TAM), presents a complex architecture deriving from a long-lasting tectonic evolution. After the Paleozoic juxtaposition to the East Antarctic craton, NVL was affected by i) the Gondwana breakup which led to the Meso-Cenozoic...

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...