Tectonics of the drake Passage-Scotia sea zone in the southern ocean

Autor: N. A. Kurentsova, V. G. Bakhmutov, A. F. Beresnev, V. D. Solov’ev, A. V. Kol'tsova, G. V. Schenke, G. B. Udintsev, L. G. Domoratskaya
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Doklady Earth Sciences. 445:1029-1035
ISSN: 1531-8354
1028-334X
Popis: The relief and geophysical characteristics of the sea floor in the Drake Passage-Scotia Sea zone have been studied quite well in general. The oceanic floor within this zone is usually considered as a collage of small fragments of the continental bridge and of young oceanic plates formed by spreading under the large-scale motions of large lithospheric plates. The authors suppose an alternative version of the genesis of the Drake Passage-Scotia Sea lithospheric zone as an area of large fragments of the continental bridge subjected to basification under the conditions of temperate extension and local rifting.
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