Magallanes-Fagnano Fault

The Magallanes-Fagnano fault (also Magallanes-Fagnano fold, Spanish Falla Fagnano-Magallanes ) is a continental transform fault . The fold marks the boundary between the Scotia Plate and the South American Plate and cuts through the continental crust. It runs under the western part of the Strait of Magellan , the Almirantazgo Fjord and Lake Fagnano .

Web links

• Dirk Schörner : Bathymetric mapping in the Magellanic Fjord Zone. Diploma thesis at the Institute for Geosciences, Geophysics Department of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Emanuele Lodolo, Marco Menichetti, Roberto Bartole, Zvi Ben ‐ Avraham, Alejandro Tassone, Horacio Lippai: Magallanes-Fagnano continental transform fault. (Tierra del Fuego, southernmost South America). In: Tectonics. 22, No. 6, 2003, p. 1076, bibcode : 2003Tecto..22f..15L , doi: 10.1029 / 2003TC001500 .