Synchronous age progressive hotspot trails on the African Superswell

• Main Authors: O'Connor, John, Jokat, Wilfried, Le Roex, A., Class, C., Wijsman, J., Kessling, Stefanie, Kuiper, K., Nebel, O.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/25656/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/25656/1/EGU2012-3355.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.38680; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.38680.d001

Establishing if and when South Atlantic hotspots interacted with surface processes during rifting and continental breakup is important for understanding the mechanisms that control the evolution of passive margins and their adjacent continents. One approach is to reconstruct the volcanic history of...