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- West_Antarctic_Rift abstract "The West Antarctic Rift is a major, active rift valley lying between East and West Antarctica. It encompasses the Ross Sea, the area under the Ross Ice Shelf and a part of West Antarctica. Its evolution is due to lithospheric thinning of the non-cratonic area of West Antarctica.Exploration of the geology of the West Antarctic Rift is difficult, because, apart from peaks of the Transantarctic Mountains that protrude above the ice, the region is covered by the vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Thus, the rift is less well known than other major rift valleys. It is known, however, that like the East African Rift, the West Antarctic Rift is actually a number of much shorter rifts that cross Antarctica. There is also a sharp division between older, broader Paleogene rifts including the Ross Sea Basin and the younger, narrower Terror Rift. There are also a large number of failed rifts extending as far as Berkner Island.Although many rifts within the West Antarctic Rift system are no longer active, it is now known that West Antarctica is moving away from the East Antarctic Craton in a north/northeasterly direction (approximately in the direction of the South Georgia Islands) at a rate of about 2 mm per year or 500,000 years per kilometre.The West Antarctic Rift is the source of all the recently active volcanoes within Antarctica, and of most of the major Antarctic mountain systems outside the Antarctic Peninsula. It is also believed to have a major influence on ice flows in West Antarctica, because fast moving ice streams are believed to be influenced by the lubrication provided by water-saturated till, which some argue could help cause breakup of the ice sheet if global warming accelerates.".
- West_Antarctic_Rift thumbnail Antarctica.svg?width=300.
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- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageID "6082012".
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- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageRevisionID "677635113".
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink Antarctic_Peninsula.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink Berkner_Island.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mesozoic_rifts_and_grabens.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink Category:Natural_history_of_Antarctica.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink Craton.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink East_African_Rift.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink East_Antarctica.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink Geology.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink Global_warming.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink Ice_stream.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink Paleogene.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink Rift.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink Ross_Ice_Shelf.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink Ross_Sea.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sandwich_Islands.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink Till.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink Transantarctic_Mountains.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink West_Antarctic_Ice_Sheet.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink West_Antarctica.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLink File:Antarctica.svg.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageWikiLinkText "West Antarctic Rift".
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Doi.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- West_Antarctic_Rift subject Category:Mesozoic_rifts_and_grabens.
- West_Antarctic_Rift subject Category:Natural_history_of_Antarctica.
- West_Antarctic_Rift hypernym Valley.
- West_Antarctic_Rift type Place.
- West_Antarctic_Rift comment "The West Antarctic Rift is a major, active rift valley lying between East and West Antarctica. It encompasses the Ross Sea, the area under the Ross Ice Shelf and a part of West Antarctica. Its evolution is due to lithospheric thinning of the non-cratonic area of West Antarctica.Exploration of the geology of the West Antarctic Rift is difficult, because, apart from peaks of the Transantarctic Mountains that protrude above the ice, the region is covered by the vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet.".
- West_Antarctic_Rift label "West Antarctic Rift".
- West_Antarctic_Rift sameAs Q1706809.
- West_Antarctic_Rift sameAs Ryft_Zachodnioantarktyczny.
- West_Antarctic_Rift sameAs m.0fp68p.
- West_Antarctic_Rift sameAs Batı_Antarktika_çatlağı.
- West_Antarctic_Rift sameAs Західно-Антарктичний_рифт.
- West_Antarctic_Rift sameAs Q1706809.
- West_Antarctic_Rift wasDerivedFrom West_Antarctic_Rift?oldid=677635113.
- West_Antarctic_Rift depiction Antarctica.svg.
- West_Antarctic_Rift isPrimaryTopicOf West_Antarctic_Rift.