The Kerguelen Plateau: new paleontologic and paleomagnetic age constraints on growth history from ODP Leg 183 drilling

• Main Authors: Wise, SW, Coxall, HK, Wahnert, V, Antretter, MJ, Inokuchi, H, Coffin, MF, Frey, FA, Wallace, PJ, McArthur, JM, Weis, D, Zhao, X, Teagle, DAH, Saccocia, PJ, Reusch, DN, Pringle, MS, Nicolaysen, KE, Neal, CR, Muller, RD, Moore, CL, Mahoney, JJL, Keszthelyi, L, Duncan, RA, Delius, H, Damuth, JE, Damasceno, D, Boore, MK, Boehm, F, Barling, J, Arndt, NT
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: RSNZ Publishing 2002
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Geology; Marine Geoscience; Elan Bank; Indian; Kerguelen; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/111148

Although the submergent Kerguelen Plateau(KP), a large igneous province in the Southern Indian Ocean,was initiated after the rifting of India from Antarctica, i tsconstruction, fed by the Kerguelen hot spot, has taken placeover the past c. 114 m. y. Preliminary shipboard paleontologicand paleomagnet...