Resumen de The Transantarctic Mountains Northern Network (TAMNNET): deployment and performance of a seismic array in Antarctica

Samantha E. Hansen, Angela M. Reusch, Timothy Parker, Douglas K. Bloomquist

• Over the past ∼17 years, significant technological developments have advanced seismic investigations of the polar regions. In Antarctica, studies using data from a number of large-scale deployments, such as the Transantarctic Mountains Seismic Experiment (TAMSEIS), the Gamburtsev Antarctic Mountains Seismic Experiment (GAMSEIS), and the Polar Earth Observing Network (POLENET), have greatly improved our knowledge of the continent’s tectonic evolution (Fig. 1). However, these studies have also illustrated that there is still a great deal more to be learned.

  One of the goals of TAMSEIS was to investigate the origin of the Transantarctic Mountains (TAMs), the transcontinental mountain range that separates East and West Antarctica (Fig. 1; Robinson and Splettstoesser, 1986). The TAMs lack any evidence for a …