The tectonic history of Drake Passage and its possible impacts on global climate

Y Lagabrielle, Y Goddéris, Y Donnadieu… - Earth and Planetary …, 2009 - Elsevier
This study provides an integrated review of plate tectonic models of the evolution of the
Antarctica–Patagonia connection compared to geological records collected on land in …

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 …

Evolution of Cenozoic seaways in the circum-Antarctic region

LA Lawver, LM Gahagan - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2003 - Elsevier
A complete circum-Antarctic seaway did not open until both the South Tasman Rise cleared
the Oates Land coast of East Antarctica and Drake Passage opened between the southern …

Temperature, lithosphere‐asthenosphere boundary, and heat flux beneath the Antarctic Plate inferred from seismic velocities

M An, DA Wiens, Y Zhao, M Feng… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We estimate the upper mantle temperature of the Antarctic Plate based on the thermoelastic
properties of mantle minerals and S velocities using a new 3‐D shear velocity model, AN1 …

Breakup and early seafloor spreading between India and Antarctica

C Gaina, RD Müller, B Brown… - Geophysical Journal …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
We present a tectonic interpretation of the breakup and early seafloor spreading between
India and Antarctica based on improved coverage of potential field and seismic data off the …

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 …

A new Holocene relative sea level curve for the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

EP Watcham, MJ Bentley, DA Hodgson… - Quaternary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
Precise relative sea level (RSL) data are important for inferring regional ice sheet histories,
as well as helping to validate numerical models of ice sheet evolution and glacial isostatic …

Postseafloor spreading volcanism in the central east South China Sea and its formation through an extremely thin oceanic crust

M Zhao, E He, JC Sibuet, L Sun, X Qiu… - Geochemistry …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
P wave velocity models were obtained by forward and inverse modeling from 38 ocean
bottom seismometers deployed in the central East subbasin of the South China Sea (SCS) …

Small basins in the Scotia Sea: the Eocene Drake passage gateway

G Eagles, R Livermore, P Morris - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2006 - Elsevier
After isostatic correction for their sedimentary fill, the depths of two small oceanic basins in
the southern Scotia Sea suggest that both started to open in mid to late Eocene times …

[HTML][HTML] A model of oceanic development by ridge jumping: opening of the Scotia Sea

A Maldonado, F Bohoyo, J Galindo-Zaldívar… - Global and Planetary …, 2014 - Elsevier
Ona Basin is a small intra-oceanic basin located in the southwestern corner of the Scotia
Sea. This region is crucial for an understanding of the early phases of opening of Drake …