Charcot plate

The Charcot plate was a fragment of the Phoenix plate.

[1] The subduction of the Charcot plate, beneath West Antarctica, stopped before 83 Ma, and became fused onto the Antarctic Peninsula.

[2] Researchers have suggested that there are remnants of the western part of the Charcot plate in the Bellingshausen Sea.

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