Em. Duebendorfer et Mn. Rees, EVIDENCE FOR CAMBRIAN DEFORMATION IN THE ELLSWORTH-WHITMORE MOUNTAINSTERRANE, ANTARCTICA - STRATIGRAPHIC AND TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS, Geology, 26(1), 1998, pp. 55-58
The Ellsworth-Whitmore Mountains terrane is a large geologically and g
eophysically defined crustal block that lies between the Transantarcti
c Mountains and West Antarctica, The Cambrian position of the terrane
is controversial, with many workers placing it between East Antarctica
and southern Africa and distant from Cambrian orogenic belts, We pres
ent structural and stratigraphic evidence for Cambrian deformation in
the Heritage Range, Ellsworth Mountains, From our revised stratigraphy
and structural history of the Heritage Range, we propose that the Ell
sworth-Whitmore Mountains block was located within the belt of Pan-Afr
ican deformation, within the Late Cambrian continental are, and was pa
rt of a collage of allochthonous terranes that included the Queen Maud
terrane and probably the Bowers terrane of Antarctica, These terranes
were situated outboard of Coats Land in the Cambrian and were subsequ
ently translated and accreted to East Antarctica, probably during earl
y Paleozoic time.