Plate tectonic development of the Scotia Sea

• Main Author: Eagles, Graeme
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Scotia Sea; Graham Land; Rocas; Protector; Powell Basin; South Sandwich Trench; West Scotia Ridge; Antarc*; Antarctica; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/33233/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41722

The Scotia Sea opened to fill the widening space created between the dominantly-westward motion of the South American plate and the dominantly-eastward motion of the South Sandwich Trench and its ancestors, as seen from Antarctica. Presently this space opens along an east-west azimuth, and is partit...