Evolution of the Malvinas Plate South of Africa

• Main Authors: Marks, K. M., Stock, J. M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer Verlag 2001
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Agulhas Basin; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/44971/; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20140416-090645328

We confirm that a Malvinas Plate is required in the Agulhas Basin during the Late Cretaceous because: (1) oblique Mercator plots of marine gravity show that fracture zones generated on the Agulhas rift, as well as the Agulhas Fracture Zone, do not lie on small circles about the 33o-28y South America...