[HTML][HTML] Subduction initiation in the Scotia Sea region and opening of the Drake Passage: When and why?

SHA van de Lagemaat, MLA Swart, B Vaes… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
During evolution of the South Sandwich subduction zone, which has consumed South
American Plate oceanic lithosphere, somehow continental crust of both the South American …

Towards interactive global paleogeographic maps, new reconstructions at 60, 40 and 20 Ma

F Poblete, G Dupont-Nivet, A Licht… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Paleogeographic maps are essential tools for understanding Earth system dynamics. They
provide boundary conditions for climate and geodynamic modelling, for analysing surface …

Southward propagation of Nazca subduction along the Andes

YW Chen, J Wu, J Suppe - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The Andean margin is the plate-tectonic paradigm for long-lived, continuous subduction, yet
its geology since the late Mesozoic era (the past 100 million years or so) has been far from …

[HTML][HTML] Paleogeographic controls on the evolution of Late Cretaceous ocean circulation

JB Ladant, CJ Poulsen, F Fluteau, CR Tabor… - Climate of the …, 2020 - cp.copernicus.org
Understanding of the role of ocean circulation on climate during the Late Cretaceous is
contingent on the ability to reconstruct its modes and evolution. Geochemical proxies used …

Paleogeography and biogeography of the Gondwanan final breakup and its terrestrial vertebrates: New insights from southern South America and the “double Noah's …

MA Reguero, FJ Goin - Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
The Mesozoic plate tectonic and paleogeographic history of the final break up of West
Gondwana had a profound effect on the distribution of terrestrial vertebrates in South …

[HTML][HTML] Subduction invasion polarity switch from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean: A new geodynamic model of subduction initiation based on the Scotia Sea region

WP Schellart, V Strak, A Beniest, JC Duarte… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Subduction zones and their associated slabs are the main drivers of plate tectonics and
mantle flow, but how these zones initiate remains enigmatic. In the Scotia Sea region …

The closure of the Rocas Verdes Basin and early tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Magallanes Fold-and-Thrust Belt, southern Patagonian Andes (52–54° S)

VAP Muller, M Calderón, JC Fosdick, MC Ghiglione… - Tectonophysics, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Western Domain of the Magallanes Fold-and-Thrust Belt (MFTB) between 52°-
54° S is part of a poorly studied hinterland region of the southernmost Andean Cordillera …

New cladotherian mammal from southern Chile and the evolution of mesungulatid meridiolestidans at the dusk of the Mesozoic era

AG Martinelli, S Soto-Acuña, FJ Goin, J Kaluza… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
In the last decades, several discoveries have uncovered the complexity of mammalian
evolution during the Mesozoic Era, including important Gondwanan lineages: the …

Tracking the tempo of a continental margin arc: Insights from a forearc succession in West Antarctica

TR Riley, MJ Flowerdew, A Carter… - Geological …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Fossil Bluff Group of eastern Alexander Island records the exceptional preservation of
more than 8 km of Mesozoic sedimentary rocks deposited into an accretionary forearc basin …

Early Andean tectonomagmatic stages in north Patagonia: insights from field and geochemical data

A Echaurren, V Oliveros, A Folguera… - Journal of the …, 2017 - lyellcollection.org
The Andes in northern Patagonia are mainly formed by Mesozoic magmatic units: the mostly
Jurassic–Cretaceous North Patagonian Batholith and volcanism of the Jurassic Lago La …