Tectonic Evolution of the Antarctic Sector of the Pacific Margin: Mesozoic and Paleozoic Development of Marie Byrd Land

西南极的构造演化及其与东南极的关系是南极大陆最基本的构造问题。它与全球板块相互作用、南大洋古环流、古环境和古生物地理有关，也是大陆本身发展的基础。美国-联合王国的西南极构造项目(1983-1988年)揭示了威德尔海区域的构造演化。美国-新西兰-联合王国在马里伯德岛的三方研究项目计划完成我们对太平洋盆地南缘构造演化的了解。它将涉及实地和实验室调查，旨在阐明玛丽·伯德陆块的结构和演化及其与其他西南极地壳地块的关系；东部研究涉及构造、古地磁和地质年代学调查，特别涉及前新生代的发展和玛丽·伯德陆块。

The tectonic evolution of West antarctica and its relationship to East antarctica is the most fundamental tectonic problem of the Antarctic continent. It bears on global plate interaction, paleocirculation in the Southern Ocean, paleoenvironment, and paleobiogeography as well as being fundamental to the development of the continent itself. The joint United State-United Kingdom West Antarctic Tectonics project (1983-88) has shed considerable light on the tectonic evolution of the Weddell Sea region. A tripartite United States- New Zealand-United Kingdom program of study in Marie Byrd Land is planned to complete our understanding of the tectonic evolution of the southern rim of the Pacific Ocean basin. It will involve field and laboratory investigations designed to elucidate the structure and evolution of the Marie Byrd Land crustal block and its relationship to other West Antarctic crustal blocks, the east study involves structural, paleomagnetic and geochronologic investigations bearing particularly on the pre-Cenozoic development and Marie Byrd Land.