Seafloor spreading on the Southeast Indian Ridge over the last one million years: A test of the Capricorn plate hypothesis

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 188, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 91-105

  Conder, James A ^a,b   Forsyth, Donald W ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deformation; Indian ocean; Plate boundaries; Plate tectonics; Sea floor spreading; Southeast Indian Ridge

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0034993994     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00326-0     Document Type: Article

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