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The relief and geophysical characteristics of the sea floor in the Drake Passage-Scotia Sea zone have been studied quite well in general. The oceanic floor within this zone is usually considered as a collage of small fragments of the continental bridge and of young oceanic plates formed by spreading under the large-scale motions of large lithospheric plates. The authors suppose an alternative version of the genesis of the Drake Passage-Scotia Sea lithospheric zone as an area of large fragments of the continental bridge subjected to basification under the conditions of temperate extension and local rifting.
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Original Russian Text © G.B. Udintsev, N.A. Kurentsova, A.F. Beresnev, A.V. Kol’tsova, L.G. Domoratskaya, G.V. Schenke, V.G. Bakhmutov, V.D. Solov’ev, 2012, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2012, Vol. 445, No. 6, pp. 685–691.
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Udintsev, G.B., Kurentsova, N.A., Beresnev, A.F. et al. Tectonics of the drake Passage-Scotia sea zone in the southern ocean. Dokl. Earth Sc. 445, 1029–1035 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X12080260
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