Magnetic Anomalies, Bathymetry and the Tectonic Evolution of the South Pacific since the Late Cretaceous

• Published in: Geophysical Journal International
• Main Authors: Molnar, Peter, Atwater, Tanya, Mammerickx, Jacqueline, Smith, Stuart M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1975
• Subjects: Articles; Antarctic; Campbell Plateau; Eltanin Fracture Zone; Eltanin Fracture Zone System; Indian; New Zealand; Pacific; The Antarctic; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/40/3/383; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1975.tb04139.x

Bathymetric and magnetic anomaly data indicate that the South Pacific Ocean floor between New Zealand and Antarctica formed since late Cretaceous time by sea-floor spreading at the Pacific-Antarctic Rise and the southern portion of the East Pacific Rise. Following the initial breaking apart of the C...