The geology of Antarctica covers the geological development of the continent through the Archean, Proterozoic and Phanerozoic eons. The geological study...

Antarctica (/ænˈtɑːrktɪkə/ ) is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded...

The geography of Antarctica is dominated by its south polar location and, thus, by ice. The Antarctic continent, located in the Earth's southern hemisphere...

supercontinent. The remnants of Gondwana make up around two-thirds of today's continental area, including South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Zealandia...

The Antarctic plate is a tectonic plate containing the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau, and some remote islands in the Southern Ocean and...

The geology of the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica, is a rock record of continuous deposition that occurred from the Cambrian to the Permian periods,...

National Geology and Mining Service, Chile's geology and mining agency. The journal covers the field of geology and related earth sciences, primarily on issues...

This is a list of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Antarctica. Geology portal Paleontology portal Geology of Antarctica List of fossiliferous stratigraphic...

The climate of Antarctica is the coldest on Earth. The continent is also extremely dry (it is a desert), averaging 166 mm (6.5 in) of precipitation per...

crystal of anorthoclase (a type of feldspar) found in the immediate area surrounding Mount Erebus near McMurdo Station, Antarctica. This type of feldspar...

series of rift valleys between East and West Antarctica. It encompasses the Ross Embayment, the Ross Sea, the area under the Ross Ice Shelf and a part of Marie...

roughly 1,000 kilometres (650 mi) south of South America, is the northernmost portion of the continent of Antarctica. Like the associated Andes, the Antarctic...

Unconfirmed volcanoes are not included in the table below. Geology of Antarctica Lists of volcanoes van Wyk de Vries, Maximillian; Bingham, Robert G.;...

region of the Cretaceous comprised the continent of East Gondwana–modern day Australia, Zealandia, and Antarctica–a product of the break-up of Gondwana...

region of Antarctica. With an area of 1,610,000 km2 (620,000 sq mi), it is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth. It was named after the wife of American...

chronostratigraphy (the process of relating strata to time) and geochronology (a scientific branch of geology that aims to determine the age of rocks). It is used...

The Charcot plate was a fragment of the Phoenix plate. The subduction of the Charcot plate, beneath West Antarctica, stopped before 83 Ma, and became fused...

Adare Trough of the Ross Sea. Geology of Antarctica – Geologic composition of Antarctica Drewry, David J. (November 1976). "Sedimentary basins of the east...

"Geological structure and stratigraphic correlation in Antarctica". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 6 (3): 438. doi:10.1080/00288306.1963...

The McMurdo Dry Valleys are a row of largely snow-free valleys in Antarctica, located within Victoria Land west of McMurdo Sound. The Dry Valleys experience...

ago). It included the Gawler Craton of southern Australia and correlated terrains in Antarctica. Since very little of the historical continent is exposed...

2009. Additional campaigns have occurred in the Arctic summer and East Antarctica. IceBridge flights began in March 2009 using a Lockheed P-3 Orion in the...

Mountains (EWM) is the innermost of the four or five allochthonous terranes, or tectonic blocks, that form West Antarctica. EWM was located in an embayment...

history of Antarctica emerges from early Western theories of a vast continent, known as Terra Australis, believed to exist in the far south of the globe...

Gérard (January 2012). "Geodynamic reconstructions of the South America–Antarctica plate system". Journal of Geodynamics. 53: 43–60. Bibcode:2012JGeo...53...

Land is a region of Northeastern Antarctica which extends into the Southern Indian Ocean. The area is claimed by Australia as part of the Australian Antarctic...

thrust of an orogen. Geology of Africa Geology of Chad Geology of Egypt Geology of Madagascar Geology of Rwanda Geology of Togo Geology of Antarctica Geology...

but surmounted by prominent peaks of Desko Mountains in Antarctica, 8 kilometres (5 mi) west of the north part of Alexander Island in the north entrance...

The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land and within the Ross Embayment, and is the southernmost...

the modern-day Andean margin of South America, the South African Cape, West Antarctica, Victoria Land in East Antarctica, Eastern Australia, Tasmania...