Summary of palaeomagnetic results from West Antarctica: implications for the tectonic evolution of the Pacific margin of Gondwana during the Mesozoic

• Main Authors: DiVenere, Victor J., Kent, Dennis V., Dalziel, Ian W. D.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Columbia University 1996
• Subjects: Geophysics; Plate tectonics; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Weddell Sea; East Antarctica; Ross Sea; West Antarctica; Victoria Land; Pacific; New Zealand; Weddell; Byrd; Marie Byrd Land; Thurston; Thurston Island; Whitmore Mountains; Byrd Subglacial Basin; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8np2dsv; https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8NP2DSV

Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is the western keystone of West Antarctica. Recent palaeomagnetic results from Lower Cretaceous (c. 117 Ma) plutonic and volcanic rocks from MBL in conjunction with a previous palaeomagnetic result from New Zealand suggest that eastern MBL and the Eastern Province of New Zealan...