Uncertainties in the relative positions of the Australia, Antarctica, Lord Howe, and Pacific plates since the Late Cretaceous

Relative motion of the Nazca (Farallon)

Relative motion of the Nazca (Farallon) and South American Plates since Late Cretaceous time

✍ Pardo-Casas, Federico; Molnar, Peter 📂 Article 📅 1987 🏛 American Geophysical Union 🌐 English ⚖ 920 KB

Relative motion of the Nazca (Farallon)

Relative motion of the Nazca (Farallon) and South American plates since Late Cretaceous time

📂 Article 📅 1987 🏛 Elsevier Science ⚖ 187 KB

Relative positions of Africa and Antarct

Relative positions of Africa and Antarctica in the Upper Cretaceous: evidence for non-stationary behaviour of fracture zones

✍ Ph. Patriat; J. Segoufin; J. Goslin; P. Beuzart 📂 Article 📅 1985 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 840 KB

Reply to the comment on “Relative positi

Reply to the comment on “Relative positions of Africa and Antarctica in the Upper Cretaceous: evidence for non-stationary behaviour of fracture zones” by A.K. Martin

✍ Ph. Patriat; J. Segoufin 📂 Article 📅 1987 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 135 KB

Comment on “Relative positions of Africa

Comment on “Relative positions of Africa and Antarctica in the Upper Cretaceous: evidence for non-stationary behaviour of fracture zones” by Ph. Patriat, J. Segoufin, J. Goslin and P. Beuzart

✍ A.K. Martin 📂 Article 📅 1987 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 366 KB

The global network of plate boundaries c

The global network of plate boundaries can be divided into two discrete subnetworks containing the spreading and subduction boundaries, respectively. We advocate that this division is a stable pattern that derives from consistency rules in rigid-plate rotations. Subduction is distributed along a single, long subnetwork, hence organizing the mantle convection as a single, long downwelling wall and two lower mantle upwelling columns, at the Pacific and African sides of the Earth, respectively. The columns should merge upward between Antarctica and Australia to reach the single, long spreading subnetwork. The flow encircles two toric volumes that escape convectional mixing and are the likely sources of the two, Atlantic–Indian and Pacific, hot spot domains.

✍ L.-E. Ricou 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 197 KB

The global network of plate boundaries can be divided into two discrete subnetworks containing the spreading and subduction boundaries, respectively. We advocate that this division is a stable pattern that derives from consistency rules in rigid‐plate rotations. Subduction is distributed along a sin