Indian Rocks [SEP] continent
Indian Rocks
Indian Rocks is a group of rocks in eastern Hero Bay on the north side of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers operating from Blythe Bay.
The feature is named after the British sealing vessel "Indian" under Captain Spiller that visited the South Shetlands in 1820-21 and brought back some of the crew of the wrecked ship "Cora" from nearby Desolation Island.
Location.
The rocks are located at which is 1.15
the Ailao Shan Fault is to the north.
Rocks in this region include sedimentary rocks from the Paleozoic and Mesozoic into which granite has intruded during the Cretaceous.
The rocks have metamorphosed and are deeply eroded and faulted.
The rocks exposed in the Reting Tsangpo canyon range in age from 400 Ma to 50 Ma.
The result of faulting has been to often juxtapose relatively recent rocks with much older rocks.
The complex geology is the result of the movement of the Indian continent towards Tibet over the