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The '''Phoenix Plate''' (also known as the '''Aluk Plate''' or '''Drake Plate''') was a [[tectonic plate]] that existed during the early [[Paleozoic]] through late [[Cenozoic]] time. It formed a [[triple junction]] with the [[Izanagi Plate|Izanagi]] and [[Farallon Plate|Farallon]] plates in the [[Panthalassa Ocean]] as early as 410 million years ago, during which time the Phoenix Plate was [[subduction|subducting]] under eastern [[Gondwana]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Matthews|first1=Kara J.|last2=Maloney|first2=Kayla T.|last3=Zahirovic|first3=Sabin|last4=Williams|first4=Simon E.|last5=Seton|first5=Maria|last6=Müller|first6=R. Dietmar |url=/proxy/https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:012878d5-4027-4bfc-8b91-c109cadd4dbe/download_file?file_format=pdf&safe_filename=Matthews%2Bet%2Bal%252C%2BGlobal%2Bplate%2Bboundary%2Bevolution%2Band%2Bkinematics%2Bsince%2Bthe%2Blate%2BPaleozoic.pdf&type_of_work=Journal+article|title=Global plate boundary evolution and kinematics since the late Paleozoic|publisher=University of Oxford|page=752| |
The '''Phoenix Plate''' (also known as the '''Aluk Plate''' or '''Drake Plate''') was a [[tectonic plate]] that existed during the early [[Paleozoic]] through late [[Cenozoic]] time. It formed a [[triple junction]] with the [[Izanagi Plate|Izanagi]] and [[Farallon Plate|Farallon]] plates in the [[Panthalassa Ocean]] as early as 410 million years ago, during which time the Phoenix Plate was [[subduction|subducting]] under eastern [[Gondwana]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Matthews|first1=Kara J.|last2=Maloney|first2=Kayla T.|last3=Zahirovic|first3=Sabin|last4=Williams|first4=Simon E.|last5=Seton|first5=Maria|last6=Müller|first6=R. Dietmar |url=/proxy/https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:012878d5-4027-4bfc-8b91-c109cadd4dbe/download_file?file_format=pdf&safe_filename=Matthews%2Bet%2Bal%252C%2BGlobal%2Bplate%2Bboundary%2Bevolution%2Band%2Bkinematics%2Bsince%2Bthe%2Blate%2BPaleozoic.pdf&type_of_work=Journal+article|title=Global plate boundary evolution and kinematics since the late Paleozoic|publisher=University of Oxford|page=752|access-date=2020-04-07}}</ref> |
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By the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous 150–130 million years ago, the [[Pacific Plate]] arose from the Izanagi-Farallon-Phoenix triple junction, resulting in the creation of the Izanagi-Pacific-Phoenix and Farallon-Pacific-Phoenix triple junctions.<ref name="SH">{{Cite book | last = Smith | first = Alan D. | title = Plates, Plumes, and Planetary Processes | chapter = A plate model for Jurassic to Recent intraplate volcanism in the Pacific Oceanic basin | publisher = [[Geological Society of America]] | year = 2007 | pages = 274, 275, 276 | location = [[Boulder, Colorado]] | isbn = 978-0-8137-2430-0 }}</ref> Subduction ceased east of [[Australia]] about 120 million years ago, during which time a transform/transpressional boundary formed.<ref name="QN">{{Cite conference | last1 = Seton | first1 = M. | last2 = Müller | first2 = R. D. | title = Reconstructing the junction between Panthalassa and Tethys since the Early Cretaceous | year = 2008 | conference = Eastern Australasian Basins III | publisher = Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Special Publications | location = Sydney | pages = 263, 264, 265 | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232095770 }}</ref> This transform/transpressional boundary with the Phoenix Plate lasted until about 80 million years ago as the plate continued to descend southwards as a result of [[Late Cretaceous]] subduction under the [[Antarctic Peninsula]].<ref name="QN"/><ref>{{cite journal| |
By the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous 150–130 million years ago, the [[Pacific Plate]] arose from the Izanagi-Farallon-Phoenix triple junction, resulting in the creation of the Izanagi-Pacific-Phoenix and Farallon-Pacific-Phoenix triple junctions.<ref name="SH">{{Cite book | last = Smith | first = Alan D. | title = Plates, Plumes, and Planetary Processes | chapter = A plate model for Jurassic to Recent intraplate volcanism in the Pacific Oceanic basin | publisher = [[Geological Society of America]] | year = 2007 | pages = 274, 275, 276 | location = [[Boulder, Colorado]] | isbn = 978-0-8137-2430-0 }}</ref> Subduction ceased east of [[Australia]] about 120 million years ago, during which time a transform/transpressional boundary formed.<ref name="QN">{{Cite conference | last1 = Seton | first1 = M. | last2 = Müller | first2 = R. D. | title = Reconstructing the junction between Panthalassa and Tethys since the Early Cretaceous | year = 2008 | conference = Eastern Australasian Basins III | publisher = Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Special Publications | location = Sydney | pages = 263, 264, 265 | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232095770 }}</ref> This transform/transpressional boundary with the Phoenix Plate lasted until about 80 million years ago as the plate continued to descend southwards as a result of [[Late Cretaceous]] subduction under the [[Antarctic Peninsula]].<ref name="QN"/><ref>{{cite journal |author=Larter, R. D. |author2=A. P. Cunningham |author3=P. F. Barker |author4=K. Gohl |author5=F. O. Nitsche |title=Tectonic evolution of the Pacific margin of Antarctica, 1, Late Cretaceous tectonic reconstructions|journal= Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth|volume=107|issue=B12|page=2345|doi=10.1029/2000JB000052|date=2002-12-13|bibcode=2002JGRB..107.2345L|url=/proxy/https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/5400/1/Lar2002a.pdf|doi-access=free}}</ref> |
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During the Late Cretaceous or early Cenozoic, the southwestern part of the Phoenix Plate fragmented into the [[Charcot Plate]], much in the same way in which the [[Rivera Plate|Rivera]] and [[Cocos Plate|Cocos]] plates were formed by the fragmentation of the Farallon Plate.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Larter | first1 = Robert D. | last2 = Barker | first2 = Peter F. | last3 = Cunningham | first3 = Alex P. | last4 = Gohl | first4 = Karsten | title = Tectonic evolution of the Pacific margin of Antarctica, I. Late Cretaceous tectonic reconstructions | year = 2002 | journal = Journal of Geophysical Research |
During the Late Cretaceous or early Cenozoic, the southwestern part of the Phoenix Plate fragmented into the [[Charcot Plate]], much in the same way in which the [[Rivera Plate|Rivera]] and [[Cocos Plate|Cocos]] plates were formed by the fragmentation of the Farallon Plate.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Larter | first1 = Robert D. | last2 = Barker | first2 = Peter F. | last3 = Cunningham | first3 = Alex P. | last4 = Gohl | first4 = Karsten | title = Tectonic evolution of the Pacific margin of Antarctica, I. Late Cretaceous tectonic reconstructions | year = 2002 | journal = Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth| doi = 10.1029/2000JB000052 | volume= 107 | issue = B12 | pages= EPM 5-1-EPM 5-19| url = https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/5400/1/Lar2002a.pdf | bibcode = 2002JGRB..107.2345L | doi-access = free }}</ref> |
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The [[Antarctic-Phoenix Ridge]], a [[mid-oceanic ridge]] between the Antarctic and Phoenix plates, initiated following Late Cretaceous to early Cenozoic times when the Phoenix Plate had [[Divergent boundary|divergent boundaries]] with the [[Bellingshausen Plate|Bellingshausen]] and Pacific plates in the southwestern [[Pacific Ocean]].<ref name="JQ">{{Cite journal | last = Eagles | first = Graeme | title = Tectonic evolution of the Antarctic–Phoenix plate system since 15 Ma| year = 2003 | journal = [[Earth and Planetary Science Letters]] | page= 97, 98 | issn = 0012-821X}}</ref> A major decrease in spreading rate of the Antarctic-Phoenix Ridge and the [[Convergent boundary|convergence]] rate of the Phoenix Plate with the Antarctic Plate occurred around 52.3 million years ago, followed by subduction of a segment of the Antarctic-Phoenix Ridge between 50 and 43 million years ago.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = McCarron | first1 = J. J.| last2 = Larter |first2 = R. D. | title = Late Cretaceous to early Tertiary subduction history of the Antarctic Peninsula | year = 1998 | journal = [[Journal of the Geological Society]] | doi = 10.1144/gsjgs.155.2.0255 | volume=155 | issue = 2| page=255}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Taylor|first=Brian|title=Backarc Basins: Tectonics and Magmatism|publisher=[[Plenum Press]]|year=1995|page=317|isbn=0-306-44937-4}}</ref> |
The [[Antarctic-Phoenix Ridge]], a [[mid-oceanic ridge]] between the Antarctic and Phoenix plates, initiated following Late Cretaceous to early Cenozoic times when the Phoenix Plate had [[Divergent boundary|divergent boundaries]] with the [[Bellingshausen Plate|Bellingshausen]] and Pacific plates in the southwestern [[Pacific Ocean]].<ref name="JQ">{{Cite journal | last = Eagles | first = Graeme | title = Tectonic evolution of the Antarctic–Phoenix plate system since 15 Ma| year = 2003 | journal = [[Earth and Planetary Science Letters]] | page= 97, 98 | issn = 0012-821X}}</ref> A major decrease in spreading rate of the Antarctic-Phoenix Ridge and the [[Convergent boundary|convergence]] rate of the Phoenix Plate with the Antarctic Plate occurred around 52.3 million years ago, followed by subduction of a segment of the Antarctic-Phoenix Ridge between 50 and 43 million years ago.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = McCarron | first1 = J. J.| last2 = Larter |first2 = R. D. | title = Late Cretaceous to early Tertiary subduction history of the Antarctic Peninsula | year = 1998 | journal = [[Journal of the Geological Society]] | doi = 10.1144/gsjgs.155.2.0255 | volume=155 | issue = 2| page=255| bibcode = 1998JGSoc.155..255M| s2cid = 129764564}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Taylor|first=Brian|title=Backarc Basins: Tectonics and Magmatism|publisher=[[Plenum Press]]|year=1995|page=317|isbn=0-306-44937-4}}</ref> |
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Although active subduction occurred for over 100 million years, it stopped or slowed dramatically about 3.3 million years ago when [[seafloor spreading]] on the Antarctic-Phoenix Ridge ceased, leaving a small remnant of the former Phoenix Plate incorporated in the Antarctic Plate.<ref name="JQ"/> This remnant underlies the southwest [[Drake Passage]] and is surrounded by the [[Shackleton Fracture Zone]] in the northeast, the [[Hero Fracture Zone]] in the southwest, the [[South Shetland Trough]] in the southeast and the extinct Antarctic-Phoenix Ridge in the northwest.<ref name="JQ"/><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Riley | first1 = Teal R. | last2 = Bristow | first2 = Charlie S. | last3 = Leat | first3 = P.T. | last4 = Burton-Johnson | first4 = Alex | title = Geochronology and geochemistry of the northern Scotia Sea: A revised interpretation of the North and West Scotia ridge junction | year = 2019 | journal = [[Earth and Planetary Science Letters]] | volume=518 | page=137 | doi = 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.04.031 | issn = 0012-821X}}</ref> |
Although active subduction occurred for over 100 million years, it stopped or slowed dramatically about 3.3 million years ago when [[seafloor spreading]] on the Antarctic-Phoenix Ridge ceased, leaving a small remnant of the former Phoenix Plate incorporated in the Antarctic Plate.<ref name="JQ"/> This remnant underlies the southwest [[Drake Passage]] and is surrounded by the [[Shackleton Fracture Zone]] in the northeast, the [[Hero Fracture Zone]] in the southwest, the [[South Shetland Trough]] in the southeast and the extinct Antarctic-Phoenix Ridge in the northwest.<ref name="JQ"/><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Riley | first1 = Teal R. | last2 = Bristow | first2 = Charlie S. | last3 = Leat | first3 = P.T. | last4 = Burton-Johnson | first4 = Alex | title = Geochronology and geochemistry of the northern Scotia Sea: A revised interpretation of the North and West Scotia ridge junction | year = 2019 | journal = [[Earth and Planetary Science Letters]] | volume=518 | page=137 | doi = 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.04.031 | bibcode = 2019E&PSL.518..136R | issn = 0012-821X| doi-access = free }}</ref> |
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 The Panthalassa Ocean 250 million years ago, showing the Phoenix Plate in the south, the Farallon Plate in the northeast and the Izanagi Plate in the northwest. | |
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The Phoenix Plate (also known as the Aluk Plate or Drake Plate) was a tectonic plate that existed during the early Paleozoic through late Cenozoic time. It formed a triple junction with the Izanagi and Farallon plates in the Panthalassa Ocean as early as 410 million years ago, during which time the Phoenix Plate was subducting under eastern Gondwana.[1]
By the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous 150–130 million years ago, the Pacific Plate arose from the Izanagi-Farallon-Phoenix triple junction, resulting in the creation of the Izanagi-Pacific-Phoenix and Farallon-Pacific-Phoenix triple junctions.[2] Subduction ceased east of Australia about 120 million years ago, during which time a transform/transpressional boundary formed.[3] This transform/transpressional boundary with the Phoenix Plate lasted until about 80 million years ago as the plate continued to descend southwards as a result of Late Cretaceous subduction under the Antarctic Peninsula.[3][4]
During the Late Cretaceous or early Cenozoic, the southwestern part of the Phoenix Plate fragmented into the Charcot Plate, much in the same way in which the Rivera and Cocos plates were formed by the fragmentation of the Farallon Plate.[5]
The Antarctic-Phoenix Ridge, a mid-oceanic ridge between the Antarctic and Phoenix plates, initiated following Late Cretaceous to early Cenozoic times when the Phoenix Plate had divergent boundaries with the Bellingshausen and Pacific plates in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.[6] A major decrease in spreading rate of the Antarctic-Phoenix Ridge and the convergence rate of the Phoenix Plate with the Antarctic Plate occurred around 52.3 million years ago, followed by subduction of a segment of the Antarctic-Phoenix Ridge between 50 and 43 million years ago.[7][8]
Although active subduction occurred for over 100 million years, it stopped or slowed dramatically about 3.3 million years ago when seafloor spreading on the Antarctic-Phoenix Ridge ceased, leaving a small remnant of the former Phoenix Plate incorporated in the Antarctic Plate.[6] This remnant underlies the southwest Drake Passage and is surrounded by the Shackleton Fracture Zone in the northeast, the Hero Fracture Zone in the southwest, the South Shetland Trough in the southeast and the extinct Antarctic-Phoenix Ridge in the northwest.[6][9]
References
[edit]- ^ Matthews, Kara J.; Maloney, Kayla T.; Zahirovic, Sabin; Williams, Simon E.; Seton, Maria; M�ller, R. Dietmar. "Global plate boundary evolution and kinematics since the late Paleozoic". University of Oxford. p. 752. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ^ Smith, Alan D. (2007). "A plate model for Jurassic to Recent intraplate volcanism in the Pacific Oceanic basin". Plates, Plumes, and Planetary Processes. Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America. pp. 274, 275, 276. ISBN 978-0-8137-2430-0.
- ^ a b Seton, M.; Müller, R. D. (2008). Reconstructing the junction between Panthalassa and Tethys since the Early Cretaceous. Eastern Australasian Basins III. Sydney: Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Special Publications. pp. 263, 264, 265.
- ^ Larter, R. D.; A. P. Cunningham; P. F. Barker; K. Gohl; F. O. Nitsche (2002-12-13). "Tectonic evolution of the Pacific margin of Antarctica, 1, Late Cretaceous tectonic reconstructions" (PDF). Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 107 (B12): 2345. Bibcode:2002JGRB..107.2345L. doi:10.1029/2000JB000052.
- ^ Larter, Robert D.; Barker, Peter F.; Cunningham, Alex P.; Gohl, Karsten (2002). "Tectonic evolution of the Pacific margin of Antarctica, I. Late Cretaceous tectonic reconstructions" (PDF). Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 107 (B12): EPM 5-1-EPM 5-19. Bibcode:2002JGRB..107.2345L. doi:10.1029/2000JB000052.
- ^ a b c Eagles, Graeme (2003). "Tectonic evolution of the Antarctic–Phoenix plate system since 15 Ma". Earth and Planetary Science Letters: 97, 98. ISSN 0012-821X.
- ^ McCarron, J. J.; Larter, R. D. (1998). "Late Cretaceous to early Tertiary subduction history of the Antarctic Peninsula". Journal of the Geological Society. 155 (2): 255. Bibcode:1998JGSoc.155..255M. doi:10.1144/gsjgs.155.2.0255. S2CID 129764564.
- ^ Taylor, Brian (1995). Backarc Basins: Tectonics and Magmatism. Plenum Press. p. 317. ISBN 0-306-44937-4.
- ^ Riley, Teal R.; Bristow, Charlie S.; Leat, P.T.; Burton-Johnson, Alex (2019). "Geochronology and geochemistry of the northern Scotia Sea: A revised interpretation of the North and West Scotia ridge junction". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 518: 137. Bibcode:2019E&PSL.518..136R. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2019.04.031. ISSN 0012-821X.
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