Geophysics of the Pitman Fracture Zone and Pacific-Antarctic Plate Motions During the Cenozoic

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Cande, Steven C., Raymond, Carol A., Stock, Joann, Haxby, W. F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science 1995
• Subjects: Antarctic; East Antarctica; Pacific; Pitman; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/49476/; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20140909-083626726

Multibeam bathymetry and magnetometer data from the Pitman fracture zone (FZ) permit construction of a plate motion history for the South Pacific over the past 65 million years. Reconstructions show that motion between the Antarctic and Bellingshausen plates was smaller than previously hypothesized...