A mid-Cretaceous age for the Palmer Land event, Antarctic Peninsula: implications for terrane accretion timing and Gondwana palaeolatitudes

• Published in: Journal of the Geological Society
• Main Authors: Vaughan, Alan P.M., Pankhurst, Robert J., Fanning, C.Mark
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Geological Society of London 2002
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Palmer Land; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/17478/; http://jgs.geoscienceworld.org/content/159/2/113.abstract

New structural and age data suggest that West Gondwana may have been at lower palaeolatitudes than previously interpreted from Albian sequences in Gondwana marginal suspect terranes. The Palmer Land event, which juxtaposed Mesozoic terranes on the Gondwana margin, deformed granitoids in the southern...