Atlantis
Cocos slab and other slabs of the Farallon family higher in the mantle to the west leads us to interpret the anomaly as a slab with a pre-Jurassic subduction age. The slab is not connected to the Farallon slab family, and several correlations to the geological record were discussed in van der Meer et al. (2010), with a preferred interpretation that the Atlantis slab represents Panthalassa oceanic lithosphere that subducted along the western margin of Laurasia until the middle Triassic. Recently Hadlari et al. (2017) with a a synthesis of U-Pb detrital zircon data corroborated a Triassic subduction zone and continental magmatic arc system along western Laurentia. The disconnection of the Atlantis and Farallon slab family results from a pause in subduction along western Laurentia illustrated by a gap in magmatism at the western continental margin of Laurentia during the mid-Late Triassic (Ward, 1995; Nokleberg et al., 2000; Barboza-Gudiño et al., 2008; DeCelles et al., 2009).
The Atlantis anomaly (Figure A11) is located below the central Atlantic Ocean, covers the core-mantle boundary, and was first identified in van der Meer et al. (2010). For instance, the
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