Stage Maps to Illustrate the Development of the Southwest Pacific, 90 m.y. to Present: a Consequence of Earth Rotation?

Keith A.W. Crook

doi:10.1071/EG978152

ISSN: 0812-3985
E-ISSN: 1834-7533

Stage Maps to Illustrate the Development of the Southwest Pacific, 90 m.y. to Present: a Consequence of Earth Rotation?
Authors Keith A.W. Crook^a
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^a Department of Geology, Australian National University, , P.O. Box 4, Canberra, , ACT 2600
Publisher: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Source: Exploration Geophysics, Volume 9, Issue 3, Sep 1978, p. 152 - 156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/EG978152
- Published online: 01 Sep 1978

Abstract

Stage maps of the SW Pacific for 90, 60, 53, 38, 29, 21, 10 and 0 m.y. are interpreted using the geodynamic postulate that arc-marginal sea terrains are a response to complex zonal rotational flow in the asthenosphere. The zonal spreading model derived from this postulate explains the major phases of SW Pacific development and many of its specific features.

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