Central and South Pacific plate tectonic reconstructions

• Main Author: Croon, Marcel Bernard
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2011
• Subjects: UCSD Dissertations; Academic Earth sciences. (Discipline); Antarctic; Galapagos; Pacific; Pitman; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2n95b5bs; http://n2t.net/ark:/20775/bb61105213

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...