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Kellogg & Reynolds 1978
Kellogg, K.S. and Reynolds, R.L. (1978). Paleomagnetic results from the Lassiter Coast, Antarctica, and a Test for oroclinal bending of the Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Geophysical Research 83: doi: 10.1029/JB083iB05p02293. issn: 0148-0227.

Paleomagnetic results from 17 magnetically stable units of Upper Cretaceous ('Andean') plutons and dikes of the Lassiter Coast, on the southern Antarctic Peninsula, define a mean paleomagnetic pole at 87¿S, 131¿W (α95=11.5¿). This indicates that little latitudinal movement of the southern Antarctic Peninsula has occurred during the past 100 m.y. All magnetically stable intrusives are normally polarized and are believed to have been emplaced during the Late Cretaceous epoch of predominantly normal polarity. There is no evidence of postemplacement remagnetization. The uncertainty in declination at the 95% confidence level is computed for both the Lassiter Coast data and those data available from other Andean sites in the Antarctic Peninsula. Within the limits of uncertainty, data from four localities north of 68¿S support the contention of Dalziel et al. (1973) that there has not been any apparent post-Late-Cretaceous oroclinal bending in the northern half of the peninsula. For sites to the south in the Lassiter Coast, the uncertainty in declination, due to steep inclinations, is too large to support reliably or deny any large-scale structural bending.

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