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The Structure of the Scotia Arc

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Donald D. Hawkes
Donald D. Hawkes
Affiliation:
Geological Survey Department, Georgetown, British Guiana.
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Abstract

It is suggested that the Scotia Arc was formed after the disruption of a continental strip between South America and Antarctica by an eastward advance of the Pacific crust; volcanic island arcs and associated trenches developed at the juction of the Pacific and Atlantic crustal types; the Scotia Arc migrated eastward with time; and that the crustal structure of the Scotia Sea is in the process of changing from an oceanic (Pacific) to a continental type.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 99 , Issue 1 , February 1962 , pp. 85 - 91
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1962

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