Southern Ocean hotspot tracks and the Cenozoic absolute motion of the African, Antarctic, and South American plates

1985/10/01 by Chris Hartnady, C.J.H. Hartnady, Anton P. le Roex +1 · 92 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Bathymetry #Cenozoic #Geodesy #Geological and Geochemical Analysis #Geology #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Hotspot (geology) #North American Plate #Oceanography #Pacific Plate #Paleontology #Plate tectonics #Seamount #Seismology #Subduction #Tectonics #earthquake and tectonic studies

paper · doi:10.1016/0012-821x(85)90106-2

published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters 75(2-3), 245-257 (Elsevier BV)

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Citations

• Prince Edward Fracture Zone and the evolution of the Mozambique Basin
• Hotspot tracks and the early rifting of the Atlantic
• Tectonic evolution of the Southwest Indian Ocean since the Mid-Cretaceous: plate motions and stability of the pole of Antarctica/Africa for at least 80 Myr

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