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ADMAP — A Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map of the Antarctic

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For a number of years the multi-national ADMAP working group has been compiling near surface and satellite magnetic data in the region south of 60° S. By the end of 2000, a 5 km grid of magnetic anomalies was produced for the entire region. The map readily portrays the first-order magnetic differences between oceanic and continental regions. The magnetic anomaly pattern over the continent reflects many phases of geological history whilst that over the abyssal plains of the surrounding oceans is dominated mostly by patterns of linear seafloor spreading anomalies and fracture zones. The Antarctic compilation reveals terranes of varying ages, including Proterozoic-Archaean cratons, Proterozoic-Palaeozoic mobile belts, Palaeozoic-Cenozoic magmatic arc systems and other important crustal features. The map delineates intra-continental rifts and major rifts along the Antarctic continental margin, the regional extent of plutons and volcanics, such as the Ferrar dolerites and Kirkpatrick basalts. The magnetic anomaly map of the Antarctic together with other geological and geophysical information provides new perspectives on the break-up of Gondwana and Rodinia evolution.

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  1. Fausto Ferraccioli

    Present address: British Antarctic Survey, BAS, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 OET, UK

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  1. VNIIOkeangeologia, Angliysky Avenue 1, St.-Petersburg, 190121, Russia

    Alexander Golynsky

  2. INGV, via di Vigna Murata, 605, 00143, Roma, Italy

    Massimo Chiappini

  3. Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, BGR, Stilleweg 2, 30655, Hannover, Germany

    Detlef Damaske

  4. DIPTERIS Università di Genova, Viale Benedetto XV, 5 16132, Genova, Italy

    Fausto Ferraccioli

  5. U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, Denver, CO, 80255, USA

    Carol A. Finn

  6. Geological Survey of Japan, 1-1-3, Higashi, SUKUBA, Ibaraki, 305, Japan

    Takemi Ishihara

  7. Ohio State University, 381, Mendenhall Lab 125 S. Oval Mall, Columbus, OH, 43210-1398, USA

    Hyung Rae Kim & Ralph von Frese

  8. NRL, 4555 Overlook Ave. SW, Washington, DC, 20375-5320, USA

    Luis Kovacs

  9. PMGRE, 24 Pobeda St., Lomonosov, 189510, Russia

    Valery N. Masolov

  10. British Antarctic Survey, BAS, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 OET, UK

    Peter Morris

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  1. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, P.O. Box 12 01 61, 27515, Bremerhaven, Germany

    Dieter Karl Fütterer

  2. Federal Institute of Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Stilleweg 2, 30655, Hannover, Germany

    Detlef Damaske

  3. Institute for Geology and Paleontology, J.W.-Goethe-University, Senckenberganlage 32, 60054, Frankfurt a. M., Germany

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  4. Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Section Geology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Luisenstr. 37, 80333, München, Germany

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Golynsky, A. et al. (2006). ADMAP — A Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map of the Antarctic. In: Fütterer, D.K., Damaske, D., Kleinschmidt, G., Miller, H., Tessensohn, F. (eds) Antarctica. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32934-X_12

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