Plate tectonics of the Scotia Sea

• Main Author: Eagles, Graeme
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctica; Scotia Sea
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/33231/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/33231/1/EGU2013-12972.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41720; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41720.d001

The opening of the Scotia Sea ended a period of direct terrestrial connection between Antarctica and South America that had started with the amalgamation of Gondwana, and inaugurated the more recent period during which high latitude oceanic circulation between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans increas...