Grounding Zone Wedges on the Antarctic Continental Shelf, Weddell Sea

Anderson, John B.

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During the 1991 R/V Polar Duke cruise, data were collected along the Weddell Sea margin of the Antarctic Peninsula (Fig. 1). Approximately 2000 km of seismic data were acquired using a 100 in³ water gun, fired at a 6 second shot interval, and an oil-filled streamer. The data were collected in analog format on an electrostatic plotter, and in digital format using Elics^® single channel seismic acquisition and processing software. The low-cut filter was set to 20 Hz; the high cut filter was set to 4000 Hz. Ship speeds ranged between 4 to 7 knots. Navigation relied on the GPS, with brief periods of satellite navigation.

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Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austria, 8701 N. MoPac Expressway, Austin, TX, 78759, USA
Thomas A. Davies
Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Alexander Murray Bldg., St. John’s, NF, A1B 3X5, Canada
Trevor Bell
Marine and Coastal Geology, U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025-3591, USA
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Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic), P.O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B26 4A2, Canada
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Byrd Polar Research Center, 1090 Carmack Rd., Columbus, OH, 43210, USA
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Dept. of Geology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 60115, USA
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Anderson, J.B. (1997). Grounding Zone Wedges on the Antarctic Continental Shelf, Weddell Sea. In: Davies, T.A., et al. Glaciated Continental Margins. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5820-6_37

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