TY - JOUR T1 - Comment on 'A new scheme for the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean and the dissection of an Aptian salt basin' by Trond H. Torsvik, Sonia Rousse, Cinthia Labails and Mark A. Smethurst A1 - Aslanian,Daniel A1 - Moulin,Maryline AD - IFREMER, Ctr Brest, DRO GM LGG, F-29280 Plouzane, France. AD - FCUL, IDL Lattex, P-1749016 Lisbon, Portugal. UR - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04727.x DO - 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04727.x KW - Plate motions KW - Continental margins: divergent KW - Africa KW - Atlantic Ocean KW - South America N2 - P>Torsvik et al. recently presented a revised model for the opening of the South Atlantic Ocean. According to these authors, this new plate tectonic model is internally consistent and consistent with globally balanced plate motion solutions and takes into account realistic intraplate deformation. However, this model shows a number of kinematic and geological problems that we underline here, together with some comparisons with the new kinematic model recently proposed by Moulin et al. Y1 - 2010/10 PB - Wiley-blackwell Publishing, Inc JF - Geophysical Journal International SN - 0956-540X VL - 183 IS - 1 SP - 20 EP - 28 ID - 12504 ER -