Plate kinematics of the Rocas Verdes Basin and Patagonian orocline

• Published in: Gondwana Research
• Main Author: Eagles, Graeme
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; Pacific; Rocas; Antarc*; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/41406/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/41406/1/pre_proof_RVB_Eagles2016.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.48330; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.48330.d001

The processes of orocline formation are a topic of debate in geosciences. The Patagonian orocline has been a case in point for over a century. Large anomalous paleomagnetic pole rotations show that the orocline started to form at the same time as mid-Cretaceous closure of the Rocas Verdes Basin, tod...