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SCAR Group of Specialists on Antarctic Neo-Tectonics - ANTEC

This Group was established at the XXV SCAR meeting in July 1998, jointly sponsored by the Working Groups on Geodesy and Geographic Information, Geology, and Solid-Earth Geophysics. The Group will investigate some of the unique geological aspects of the Antarctic continent: it lies at the centre of a lithospheric plate that is almost entirely surrounded by spreading ridges and, furthermore, has been essentially in a polar position for the last 100 million years; it appears to lack the intra-plate seismicity; it includes at least one intra-plate rift system that has unique characteristics including possible implications for the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.; and it is covered by the only extant continent-scale ice sheet which applies unusual stresses to the crust.

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