Central and South Pacific plate tectonic reconstructions

• Main Author: Croon, Marcel Bernard
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2011
• Subjects: UCSD Dissertations; Academic Earth sciences. (Discipline); Antarctic; Galapagos; Pacific; Pitman; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2n95b5bs

Several aspects of the plate tectonic evolution of the ridge systems and structural development of oceanic crust in the Central and South Pacific basins are investigated. In the South Pacific surveys of magnetic anomaly data and multibeam bathymetry of the Menard and Pitman Fracture Zones, 3̃500 km...