Pacific-Antarctic-Australia motion and the formation of the Macquarie Plate

• Main Authors: Cande, Steven C, Stock, Joann M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2004
• Subjects: Alpine Fault; diffuse deformation; Hjort Trench; Macquarie Ridge; South Tasman Sea; Southeast Indian Ridge; Antarctic; Indian; New Zealand; Pacific; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0qz7j226

Magnetic anomaly and fracture zone data on the Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR) are analysed in order to constrain the kinematic history of the Macquarie Plate, the region of the Australian Plate roughly east of 145 degreesE and south of 52 degreesS. Finite rotations for Australia-Antarctic motion are...