Danco Coast

This coast was explored in January and February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache, who named it for Lieutenant Emile Danco who died on the expedition.[1] The coast is bordered by the Aguirre Passage which separates it from Lemaire Island.[2] The Danco Coast Tectonic Block includes the Upper Permian-Triassic Trinity Peninsula Group, consisting of over 1000 m of metaturbidites folded during the Gondwanide orogeny.These two groups were intruded by the Berriasian-Cenomanian granite and gabbro sills of the Andean Instrusive Suite.A system of hypabbysal dykes intruded during the Late Cretaceous or Tertiary.
Location of Danco Coast on Antarctic Peninsula.
Map of Danco Coast, Cartographic base: Antarctic Digital Database www.add.scar.org/
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