Absolute plate motion, mantle flow, and volcanism at the boundary between the Pacific and Indian Ocean mantle domains since 90 Ma

• Main Authors: Gaina, Carmen, Müller, R. Dietmar, Cande, Steven C.
• Other Authors: Richards, Mark A., Gordon, Richard G., Van Der Hilst, Rob D.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2000
• Subjects: Antarctic; Balleny Islands; Pacific; Indian; Australian-Antarctic Discordance; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://eprints.qut.edu.au/234274/

The Tasman Sea and the southeastern Indian Ocean are situated at the interface between the Indian and Pacific oceans mantle domains. Even though the present location of the boundary between these two reservoirs at the Australian Antarctic Discordance (AAD) is well constrained by geochemical data, it...