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Bathymetry, satellite-derived gravity, and interpreted seismic reflection data across the northern Falkland/Malvinas Plateau fossil continent–ocean transform rim may record the degree of mechanical coupling across the boundary after ridge–transform intersection time. The rim comprises a broad microcontinental block in the east and a continental marginal fracture ridge 50–100 km wide elsewhere. Free-air gravity anomalies tentatively suggest that the fracture ridge is locked against oceanic elastic lithosphere both to the north (Argentine Basin) and south (Central Falkland Basin).
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Received: 18 January 1996 / Revision received: 25 March 1995
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Lorenzo, J., Wessel, P. Flexure across a continent–ocean fracture zone: the northern Falkland/Malvinas Plateau, South Atlantic. Geo-Marine Letters 17, 110–118 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003670050015
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003670050015