1975年以来,有过几次把晚臼垩世一新生代期间西南太平洋洋壳的构造与根据新西兰和南极洲大陆地质推测的板块相对运动联系起来的尝试(图1)(如.Molnar 等,1975;Weissel等,1977)。这些研究虽然对进一步了解这一 Several attempts have been made since 1975 to relate the structure of the oceanic crust in the Southwest Pacific during the Late Cretaceous to the Cenozoic to the relative motion of plates based on the geology of the New Zealand and Antarctic continents (Fig. 1) (eg, Molnar et al., 1975 ; Weissel et al., 1977). Although these studies further understand this