FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI 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 BT AF ASLANIAN, Daniel MOULIN, Maryline AS 1:1;2:2; FF 1:PDG-DOP-DCB-GM-LGG;2:; C1 IFREMER, Ctr Brest, DRO GM LGG, F-29280 Plouzane, France. FCUL, IDL Lattex, P-1749016 Lisbon, Portugal. C2 IFREMER, FRANCE UNIV LISBON, PORTUGAL SI BREST SE PDG-DOP-DCB-GM-LGG IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-europe IF 2.411 TC 10 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00014/12504/9878.pdf LA English DT Article CR SANBA (SANTOS BASIN) LEG1 SANBA (SANTOS BASIN) LEG2 ZAIANGO BO L'Atalante DE ;Plate motions;Continental margins: divergent;Africa;Atlantic Ocean;South America AB 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. PY 2010 PD OCT SO Geophysical Journal International SN 0956-540X PU Wiley-blackwell Publishing, Inc VL 183 IS 1 UT 000281902600002 BP 20 EP 28 DI 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04727.x ID 12504 ER EF