Dear Dr. Klimke,

Your revised manuscript was reviewed and based on the received comments (see below) it can be potentially suitable for publication on SE. The reviewer ask to clarify "how and/or why the 'reactivated' parts of the continent ocean transition zones came to accommodate plate motions " as proposed in Your reconstruction.

In addition to the reviewer's comments, I do, however, have further points I would ask you to address before I accept your manuscript. Some are minor editorial points, but others regards the overal manuscript organisation and the presentation of the seismic data and in particular the description of the deformation features in the basement and cover rocks. I have attached an edited pdf version of your manuscript where these points are detailed.In particular, I suggest to merge information provided in sections 4.1 and 4.2 and in figures 3-7 (see comments of the captions to figures). Furthermore, place and describe the figures in the text in a progressive order.

Waiting for a suitable revised version,

sincerely,
Federico Rossetti

REVIEWER COMMENTS
Following my earlier review and your good responses to it, I have little to add beyond the following. Please make it clear how and/or why the 'reactivated' parts of the continent ocean transition zones came to accommodate plate motions in the ways that you describe. Your manuscript is not currently clear on why these locations, so far removed from the plate boundary path along the Davie ridge and on two opposing sides of the young mid-ocean ridge in the Mozambique Basin/Riiser-Larsen Sea, should have accommodated deformation when those features - focussed high-strain plate boundary zones - ought to have accommodated all of the relative plate motion. In short, why three sites of deformation instead of one?

Dear Dr. Klimke,
Based on the way You revised the manuscript, I now consider your manuscript as suitable for final publication on SE.

many thanks for the opportunity to examine this interesting work.

Yours sincerely,
federico rossetti

Dear Authors,
Based on my assessment of the review process and on the positive feedback from the Topical Editor, I’m pleased to accept your manuscript for publication in Solid Earth, in the present form. Thank you very much for having selected our journal for submitting your work. We are looking forward to receive your next submission.

Best regards

Fabrizio Storti