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The Transantarctic Mountains are the dominant physical feature of the Antarctic continent. Some 2500 km long and up to 100 km wide, the Transantarctic Mountains form an escarpment, throughout most of their length, comprised of crystalline basement rocks, chiefly granites, overlain by Devonian to Jurassic, predominantly sandstone sediments, with massive intrusions of Jurassic dolerites (Bradshaw, 1990).
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Campbell, I.B., Claridge, G.G.C. (2004). Cryosols in the Extremely Arid Transantarctic Mountains Region of Antarctica. In: Kimble, J.M. (eds) Cryosols. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06429-0_20
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