Tectonic evolution of the Southern Ocean between Antarctica, South America and Africa over the past 84Ma

• Main Authors: Nankivell, A, Nankivell, Adrian
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Plate tectonics; South America; Africa; Antarctica; Antarctic; Bouvet; Southern Ocean; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c7a38be2-1973-47ff-9d4e-f4e76d227d46

An improved method has been developed for carrying out 2-plate reconstructions, in which fracture zone locations are fitted to synthetic flowlines and magnetic anomaly picks are rotated and fitted to great circles representing other, not necessarily conjugate, anomaly isochrons. This enables the det...