What Kind Of Faults Or Folds Do The Transarctic Mountains Have?
The Trans Antarctic Mountains is the name of a mountain range situated in, as the name suggests, Antarctica. They extend from Cape Adare and Coats Land, though not uninterrupted. This range also serves as a demarcation between the western and eastern parts of Antarctica. They are also comprised of the contiguous but differently named mountain sets along the west side of the Ross Sea and the area to the west and south of the Ross Ice Shelf. The Trans Antarctic Mountains are an atypical intra plate mountain range located entirely inside the Antarctic Continent. It is largely possible that they are associated to thermal uplift along the length of a rift structure created within the plate at some point in the disintegration of the Gondwana Super continent. The Range makes up the Eastern flank of the rift and while the Western flank is less noticeable due to its multifarious form as a succession of different ‘blocks’.
