Response to Comment on 'Major Australian-Antarctic Plate Reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor Bend Time'

Accurately locating boundaries between continental and oceanic crust is topical in view oflocating offshore boundaries relevant to margin formation models, plate kinematics, andfrontier resource exploration. Although we disagree with Tikku and Direen's interpretations, theassociated controversi...

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Published in:Science
Main Authors: Whittaker, J, Muller, RD, Leitchenkov, G, Stagg, H, Sdrolias, M, Gaina, C, Goncharov, A
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Amer Assoc Advancement Science 2008
Subjects:
Earth Sciences
Geology
Tectonics
Antarctic
Antarc*
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1157501
http://ecite.utas.edu.au/84440
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Summary:Accurately locating boundaries between continental and oceanic crust is topical in view oflocating offshore boundaries relevant to margin formation models, plate kinematics, andfrontier resource exploration. Although we disagree with Tikku and Direen's interpretations, theassociated controversies reflect an absence of agreed-upon geophysical criteria for distinguishingstretched continental from oceanic crust, and a lack of samples from nonvolcanic margins.

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