Tectonic evolution of the Southwest Indian Ocean since the Mid-Cretaceous: plate motions and stability of the pole of Antarctica/Africa for at least 80 Myr

• Published in: Geophysical Journal International
• Main Authors: Fisher, Robert L., Sclater, John G.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1983
• Subjects: Articles; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Indian; Bouvet; Prince Edward Fracture Zone; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/73/2/553; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1983.tb03330.x

The Southwest Indian Ridge is the boundary where seafloor is being created between the African and Antarctic plates. East of the newly-recognized Du Toit Fracture Zone at 27°E it trends north-easterly and is cut by a series of six deep near north-south clefts marking transform faults. This series st...