Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200 Ma

M Seton, RD Müller, S Zahirovic, C Gaina… - Earth-Science …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Global plate motion models provide a spatial and temporal framework for geological data
and have been effective tools for exploring processes occurring at the earth's surface …

The geological history and evolution of West Antarctica

TA Jordan, TR Riley, CS Siddoway - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020‏ - nature.com
West Antarctica has formed the tectonically active margin between East Antarctica and the
Pacific Ocean for almost half a billion years, where it has recorded a dynamic history of …

A Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic reconstruction of the Southwest Pacific region: Tectonics controlled by subduction and slab rollback processes

WP Schellart, GS Lister, VG Toy - Earth-Science Reviews, 2006‏ - Elsevier
A Cenozoic tectonic reconstruction is presented for the Southwest Pacific region located
east of Australia. The reconstruction is constrained by large geological and geophysical …

Geological and tectonic evolution of the Transantarctic Mountains, from ancient craton to recent enigma

JW Goodge - Gondwana Research, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Transantarctic Mountains (TAM) are one of Earth's great mountain belts and
are a fundamental physiographic feature of Antarctica. They are continental-scale, traverse a …

Neogene kinematic history of Nazca–Antarctic–Phoenix slab windows beneath Patagonia and the Antarctic Peninsula

K Breitsprecher, DJ Thorkelson - Tectonophysics, 2009‏ - Elsevier
The Patagonian slab window is a subsurface tectonic feature resulting from subduction of
the Nazca–Antarctic spreading-ridge system (Chile Rise) beneath southern South America …

Tectonic reconstructions for paleobathymetry in Drake Passage

G Eagles, W Jokat - Tectonophysics, 2014‏ - Elsevier
A minimum-complexity tectonic reconstruction, based on published and new basin opening
models, depicts how the Scotia Sea grew by Cenozoic plate divergence, dismembering a …

Seismic structure of the Antarctic upper mantle imaged with adjoint tomography

AJ Lloyd, DA Wiens, H Zhu, J Tromp… - Journal of …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The upper mantle and transition zone beneath Antarctica and the surrounding oceans are
among the poorest‐imaged regions of the Earth's interior. Over the last 15 years, several …

The Late Cretaceous to recent tectonic history of the Pacific Ocean basin

NM Wright, M Seton, SE Williams, RD Mueller - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016‏ - Elsevier
A vast ocean basin has spanned the region between the Americas, Asia and Australasia for
well over 100 Myr, represented today by the Pacific Ocean. Its evolution includes a number …

Temporal and geochemical evolution of the Cenozoic intraplate volcanism of Zealandia

C Timm, K Hoernle, R Werner, F Hauff… - Earth-Science …, 2010‏ - Elsevier
In order to constrain better the distribution, age, geochemistry and origin of widespread
Cenozoic intraplate volcanism on Zealandia, the New Zealand micro-continent, we report …

Bathymetry of the Amundsen Sea continental shelf: Implications for geology, oceanography, and glaciology

FO Nitsche, SS Jacobs, RD Larter… - Geochemistry …, 2007‏ - Wiley Online Library
The Amundsen Sea continental shelf is one of the most remote areas of coastal Antarctica
and was relatively unexplored until the late 1980s. Over the last two decades, increased …