Crack-up under the Pacific

Tim Lincoln

Nature, 1998, vol. 395, issue 6699, 223-223

Abstract: Beneath the southwest Pacific Ocean, the Pacific tectonic plate is being subducted beneath the Australian plate. But at one point subduction seems to be being impeded by a large seamount. A newly proposed explanation of an 800-km-long trough that runs east across the Pacific Plate from the 'sticking point' is that it is a stress-induced crack, although it could also be an extinct spreading centre.

Date: 1998
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