Cenozoic Plate Tectonic Reconstructions and Plate Boundary Processes in the Southwest Pacific

• Main Author: Keller, William R.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Ross Sea; West Antarctica
• Online Access: https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/99/; https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/99/1/Thesis.pdf; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-01102005-223039

The Australia-Pacific-Antarctic plate circuit has long been a weak link in global plate reconstruction models for Cenozoic time. The time period spanning chron 20 to chron 7 (43-25 Ma) is particularly problematic for global plate models because seafloor spreading was occurring in two poorly constrai...