• DOI:10.1038/nature07138
Corpus ID: 4427792

Rapid change in drift of the Australian plate records collision with Ontong Java plateau

@article{Knesel2008RapidCI,
  title={Rapid change in drift of the Australian plate records collision with Ontong Java plateau},
  author={K. Knesel and B. E. Cohen and P. Vasconcelos and D. Thiede},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2008},
  volume={454},
  pages={754-757}
}

K. Knesel, B. E. Cohen, +1 author D. Thiede

Published 2008

Geology, Medicine

Nature

The subduction of oceanic plateaux, which contain extraordinarily thick basaltic crust and are the marine counterparts of continental flood-basalt provinces, is an important factor in many current models of plate motion and provides a potential mechanism for triggering plate reorganization. To evaluate such models, it is essential to decipher the history of the collision between the largest and thickest of the world’s oceanic plateaux, the Ontong Java plateau, and the Australian plate, but this… CONTINUE READING

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