Circum-arctic plate accretion - Isolating part of a pacific plate to form the nucleus of the Arctic Basin

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Jul 1980

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980e%26psl..48..356c&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 48, Issue 2, p. 356-362.

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A mosaic of large lithospheric plates rims the Arctic Ocean Basin, and foldbelts between these plates contain numerous allochthonous microplates. A new model for continental drift and microplate accretion proposes that prior to the late Mesozoic the Kula plate extended from the Pacific into the Arctic. By a process of circumpolar drift and microplate accretion, fragments of the Pacific basin, including parts of the Kula plate, were cut off and isolated in the Arctic Ocean, the Yukon-Koyukuk basin in Alaska, and the Bering Sea.

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