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0113_why_there_is_no_saharan_atlantic_ocean @tectonicwaters:2014 #Africa #Continental breakup #Cretaceous #Mesozoic #Numerical model #Plate reconstructions #Publishing #Rifting #South America #South Atlantic

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African rift, extended between present-day South America and Africa as well as within the African continen... rly Cretaceous extension between Africa and South America that was preceded by ∼20–30 m.y. of extensive int... traplate rifts eventually failed soon after South America broke away from Africa. We investigate the spatio... ift System, and (3) the acceleration of the South America plate prior to final breakup. Oblique rifts are m

0120_experiences_with_the_egu_open_access_publication_solid_earth @tectonicwaters:2013 #EGU #Open access #Peer review #Publishing #Transparency

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ondwana. While the relative motions between South America and Africa for post-breakup times are well resolv... intracontinental rift basins in Africa and South America, we achieve a tight fit reconstruction which elim... al shear zones, in particular in Patagonian South America. By quantitatively accounting for crustal deforma... l an initial E–W directed extension between South America and Africa (fixed in present-day position) at ver

0520_the_grot_-_a_new_rotation_file_format_for_gplates @tectonicwaters:2013 #FileFormat #GPGIM #GPML #GPlates #GROT #Metadata #Rotations

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n the following screenshot, the rotation of South America (201) relative to Africa (701) is specified based

0304_the_saharan_atlantic_ocean_makes_ripples_edited @tectonicwaters:2014 #Africa #Numerical model #Plate reconstructions #Plate tectonics #Pop sci #Publishing #Science communication #South America

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ymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2572408/How-South-America-ruled-world-New-image-shows-Earth-MIGHT-looked-Af