Open AccessComment on ‘A new scheme for the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean and the dissection of an Aptian salt basin’ by Trond H. Torsvik, Sonia Rousse, Cinthia Labails and Mark A. Smethurst
Author(s) -
Aslanian D.,
Moulin M.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
geophysical journal international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.302
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1365-246X
pISSN - 0956-540X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-246x.2010.04727.x
Subject(s) - geology , intraplate earthquake , aptian , kinematics , plate tectonics , paleontology , structural basin , oceanic basin , tectonics , physics , classical mechanics
SUMMARY Torsvik et al. recently presented a revised model for the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean. According to these authors, this new plate tectonic model is internally consistent and consistent with globally balanced plate motion solutions and takes into account realistic intraplate deformation. However, this model shows a number of kinematic and geological problems that we underline here, together with some comparisons with the new kinematic model recently proposed by Moulin et al.