Joanne M. Whittaker

TL;DR: This work states that although it disagrees with Tikku and Direen's interpretations, the associated controversies reflect an absence of agreed-upon geophysical criteria for distinguishing stretched continental from oceanic crust, and a lack of samples from nonvolcanic margins.

TL;DR: In this article, the most viable plate tectonic reconstructions were identified both with and without the input of the oldest, more controversial magnetic anomaly interpretations, and discussed implications for reconstructions of other margin pairs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used more than 40 years of seismic reflection data acquisition along the margins of Antarctica and its conjugate margins, along with multiple drilling campaigns by the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and its predecessor programs to calculate oceanwide paleobathymetry grids via a backstripping method.

TL;DR: The existence of mantle plumes was first proposed in the 1970s to explain intra-plate, hotspot volcanism, yet owing to difficulties in resolving mantle upwellings with geophysical images and discrepancies in interpretations of geochemical and geochronological data, the origin, dynamics and composition of plumes and their links to plate tectonics are still contested.

TL;DR: In this article, a combination of plate tectonic reorganisation and plume-driven thermal weakening were required to calve the Batavia and Gulden Draak microcontinents in the Cretaceous Indian Ocean.