Charcot plate

{{short description|Fragment of the Phoenix tectonic plate fused to the Antarctic Peninsula}}

The Charcot plate was a fragment of the Phoenix plate.{{Cite journal

|vauthors=Eagles G, Gohl K, Larter RD

|title=High-resolution animated tectonic reconstruction of the South Pacific and West Antarctic Margin

|journal=Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst.

|volume=5

|issue=7

|at=Q07002

|doi=10.1029/2003GC000657

|date=2004-07-10|bibcode=2004GGG.....5.7002E

|url=https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/9633/1/Eag2003e.pdf

|doi-access=free

}} The subduction of the Charcot plate, beneath West Antarctica, stopped before 83 Ma, and became fused onto the Antarctic Peninsula.{{cite journal

|vauthors=Larter RD, Cunningham AP, Barker PF, Gohl K, Nitsche FO

|title=Tectonic evolution of the Pacific margin of Antarctica, 1, Late Cretaceous tectonic reconstructions

|journal=J. Geophys. Res.

|volume=107

|issue=B12

|page=2345

|doi=10.1029/2000JB000052

|date=2002-12-13|bibcode=2002JGRB..107.2345L

|url=https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/5400/1/Lar2002a.pdf

|doi-access=free

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