Charcot plate
Fragment of the Phoenix tectonic plate fused to the Antarctic Peninsula
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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.[2]
