Revised history of early Tertiary plate motion in the south-west Pacific

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Stock, Joann, Molnar, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 1987
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Bellingshausen Sea; Pacific; New Zealand; Campbell Plateau; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/325495a0

Reanalysis of early Tertiary magnetic anomalies on the Pacific plate south of the Campbell Plateau indicates that in early Tertiary time there was a previously unrecognized triple junction of the Pacific, the Antarctic, and a third plate now beneath the Bellingshausen sea. Corresponding revised para...