Plate kinematics and deformation status of the Antarctic Peninsula based on GPS

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Contributors

  • Reinhard Dietrich - , Chair of Geodetic Earth System Research (Author)
  • Axel Rülke - , Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (Author)
  • Johannes Ihde - , Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (Author)
  • Klaus Lindner - , Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Author)
  • Hubert Miller - , Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Author)
  • Wolfgang Niemeier - , Technical University of Braunschweig (Author)
  • Hans-werner Schenke - , Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Author)
  • Günter Seeber - , Leibniz University Hannover (LUH) (Author)

Abstract

Antarctic GPS data from more than 20 stations were reanalyzed using the Bernese GPS Software, version 4.2, to provide a regional densification solution for the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF) 2000. In addition to the ITRF Antarctic results, two regional solutions with different strategies of the geodetic datum realization are analyzed. The analyses indicate that relative motion between the Antarctic Peninsula and East Antarctica is no larger than 1–2 mm/year, confirming reconstructions suggesting minimal amounts of relative motion between East and West Antarctica in recent geological time. The residual deformation signals are relatively small and provide constraints on models of postglacial rebound. They amount to 1–2 mm/year in the horizontal. Uplift rates are much less precisely determined, but uplift of nearly 10 mm/year in the Northern Antarctic Peninsula is probably significant. Uplift rates elsewhere in the Antarctic Peninsula are smaller.

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)313-321
Journal Global and planetary change : a daughter journal of palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology
Volume42
Issue number1-4
Publication statusPublished - 7 May 2004
Peer-reviewedYes

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Scopus 3242658402

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