Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

Charcot plate

Fragment of the Phoenix tectonic plate fused to the Antarctic Peninsula From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Remove ads

The Charcot plate was a fragment of the Phoenix plate.[1] The subduction of the Charcot plate, beneath West Antarctica, stopped before 83 Ma, and became fused onto the Antarctic Peninsula.[2] Researchers have suggested that there are remnants of the western part of the Charcot plate in the Bellingshausen Sea.[2]

References

Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads