Subduction initiation in the Scotia Sea region and opening of the Drake Passage: When and why?

• Main Authors: van de Lagemaat, Suzanna H.A., Swart, Merel L.A., Vaes, Bram, Kosters, Martha E., Boschman, Lydian, id_orcid:0 000-0002-1802-0187, Burton-Johnson, Alex, Bijl, Peter K., Spakman, Wim, van Hinsbergen, Douwe J.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2021
• Subjects: Scotia Sea; Drake Passage; Kinematic reconstruction; GPLates; South Sandwich subduction initiation; Lithosphere delamination; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; South Orkney Islands; South Sandwich Trench; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/472835; https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000472835

During evolution of the South Sandwich subduction zone, which has consumed South American Plate oceanic lithosphere, somehow continental crust of both the South American and Antarctic plates have become incorporated into its upper plate. Continental fragments of both plates are currently separated b...