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Plate Tectonics of the Scotia Sea Region

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A newly defined small lithospheric plate in the eastern Scotia Sea accounts for the intense seismicity at the South Sandwich Trench.

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BARKER, P. Plate Tectonics of the Scotia Sea Region. Nature 228, 1293–1296 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/2281293a0

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