Evolution of the Eastern Indian Ocean: New Constraints from Satellite Altimetry Data (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Progress Report No. 29-1287)
| dc.creator | Royer, Jean-Yves | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-13T16:27:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-08-13T16:27:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1987 | |
| dc.description | The opening of the Eastern Indian Ocean resulted in the dispersal of the three main pieces of Eastern Gondwana: India, Australia and East Antarctica. Based on the seafloor magnetic anomaly pattern recognized in the Central Indian Basin, the Crozet Basin, the Wharton .Basin and the Australian-Antarctic Basin (Fig. 1), the evolution of the Eastern Indian Ocean can be summarized in three main phases: - from Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous: early separation of Antarctica+Australia from Greater India and creation of the Mesozoic Basins along the western Australian margin [Markl, 1974, 1978; Larson et al., 1979; Veevers et al., 1985]; - from Early Cretaceous to Middle Eocene: fast northward drift of India corresponding to the creation of the symmetric Central Indian Basin and Crozet Basin [McKenzie and Sclater, 1971; Schlich, 1982] , opening of the Wharton Basin [Sclater and Fisher, 1974; Liu et al, 1983] and initiation of spreading between Australia and Antarctica [Cande and Mutter, 1982]; - and from Eocene to present: opening of the Australian-Antarctic Basin [Weisse! and Hayes, 1972] and of the northern Crozet and southern Central Indian Basins [Schlich, 1975; Sclater et al., 1976] along the Southeast Indian Ridge. | |
| dc.description.department | Institute for Geophysics | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | UT Institute for Geophysics Paleoceanographic Mapping Project (POMP) | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.15781/T2610W99D | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Royer, Jean-Yves. "Evolution of the Eastern Indian Ocean: New Constraints from Satellite Altimetry Data (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Progress Report No. 29-1287)." University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Technical Report Number 80 (December 1987), 33p. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/67589 | |
| dc.language.iso | Eng | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Geophysics | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Technical Reports | |
| dc.rights.restriction | Open | |
| dc.subject | plate tectonics | |
| dc.subject | plate reconstruction | |
| dc.subject | Indian Ocean | |
| dc.subject | satellite altimetry data | |
| dc.title | Evolution of the Eastern Indian Ocean: New Constraints from Satellite Altimetry Data (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Progress Report No. 29-1287) | |
| dc.type | Report |