A diffuse plate boundary model for Indian Ocean tectonics

Details A diffuse plate boundary model for Indian Ocean tectonics A diffuse plate boundary model for Indian Ocean tectonics

Jul 1985

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Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 12, July 1985, p. 429-432. Research supported by the American Chemical Socie

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Earth Movements, Earthquakes, Indian Ocean, Plates (Tectonics), Australia, Magnetic Anomalies

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It is suggested that motion along the virtually aseismic Owen fracture zone is negligible, so that Arabia and India are contained within a single Indo-Arabian plate divided from the Australian plate by a diffuse boundary. The boundary is a zone of concentrated seismicity and deformation commonly characterized as 'intraplate'. The rotation vector of Australia relative to Indo-Arabia is consistent with the seismologically observed 2 cm/yr of left-lateral strike-slip along the Ninetyeast Ridge, north-south compression in the Central Indian Ocean, and the north-south extension near Chagos.

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