Paleomagnetism of the Jurassic Transantarctic Mountains revisited - Evidence for large dispersion of apparent polar wander within less than 3Myr

The Transantarctic mountains predominantly consist of Jurassic continental flood basalts (Kirkpatrick) and sills (Ferrar) emplaced during the earliest phase of the break-up of Pangea. Published ages, based on a variety of geochronological methods all agree rather well and cluster around 180 Ma sugge...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lemna, O., Bachtadse, V., Kirscher, Uwe, Rolf, C., Petersen, N.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42455