New Antarctic rift knowledge has implications for volcanic evolution

New marine geophysical knowledge recorded throughout two excursions on a French icebreaker enabled researchers up to now the ocean flooring and calculate the relative movement between the Antarctic Plates and the Australian Plate. This new knowledge revealed that Antarctica fused into one plate round 11 million years in the past, roughly 15 million years later than beforehand assumed.
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