Cenozoic plate tectonic reconstructions and plate boundary processes in the Southwest Pacific

• Main Author: Keller, William R.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: California Institute of Technology 2005
• Subjects: magnetics; New Zealand; plate tectonics; Geophysics; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; reflection seismic; Australia; gravity; Antarctica; Antarctic; Ross Sea; West Antarctica; Pacific; Adare; Adare Basin; Adare Trough; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7907/vb6n-hc69; 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...