http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/05/10/sea-floor-sunday-18-regional-context-for-chaiten-volcano/ A blog about sedimentary geology. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:49:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/05/10/sea-floor-sunday-18-regional-context-for-chaiten-volcano/#comment-3685 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:46:50 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.wordpress.com/?p=712#comment-3685 Aldo … the Chile triple junction (shown on diagram above) has migrated north over the last few 10s of millions of years, and its relationship to the evolution of the Scotia Plate and the Shackleton fracture zone are complicated. I can’t answer your question off the top of my head … I will do a bit of digging around. If anyone else wants to chime in, go for it!

]]> http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/05/10/sea-floor-sunday-18-regional-context-for-chaiten-volcano/#comment-3683 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:22:01 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.wordpress.com/?p=712#comment-3683 thanks for your blog.
Some months ago I posted about antarctica volcanoes in my italian blog and it was somehow difficult to understand something about Scotia plate.
Is it possible that Nazca and Scotia plate were the same plate now separated because the middle part of the plate has been all subducted beneath South America?

]]> http://clasticdetritus.com/2008/05/10/sea-floor-sunday-18-regional-context-for-chaiten-volcano/#comment-3584 Sun, 11 May 2008 08:45:43 +0000 http://clasticdetritus.wordpress.com/?p=712#comment-3584 [...] with selected issues, themes and topics in geology. The post providing the link, and much more, is ‘Sea-Floor Sunday #18: Regional context for Chaitén volcano’, which offers something you won’t find elsewhere: a map of the topography and bathymetry for [...]

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