Major Australian-Antarctic Plate Reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor Bend Time

• Main Authors: Joanne Whittaker, RD Muller, G Leitchenkov, H Stagg, M Sdrolias, C Gaina, A Goncharov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Earth sciences; Geochemistry; Geology; Marine geoscience; Geophysics; Australia; Antarctica; Izanagi; subduction; plate reorganization; Antarctic; West Antarctica; Pacific; Tonga; Emperor Seamount Chain; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Major_Australian-Antarctic_Plate_Reorganization_at_Hawaiian-Emperor_Bend_Time/22900796

A marked bend in the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain supposedly resulted from a recent major reorganization of the plate-mantle system there 50 million years ago. Although alternative mantledriven and plate-shifting hypotheses have been proposed, no contemporaneous circum-Pacific plate events have b...