Indian Ocean plate tectonic model: resource accompaniment to 'Constraining the Jurassic extent of Greater India: Tectonic evolution of the West Australian margin'

The EarthByte Group presents a tectonic model of the Indian Ocean, to accompany a study by Gibbons et al., (2012). The dataset was created to investigate the first regional-scale tectonic model of the breakup of East Gondwana. The model shows that the breakup of East Gondwana started with the migrat...

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Other Authors: The University of Sydney (hasAssociationWith), EarthByte Group: linking observations to kinematic and dynamic models (isManagedBy), Professor Dietmar Müller (isManagedBy), Dr Jo Whittaker (hasAssociationWith)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: The University of Sydney
Subjects:
Geodynamics
EARTH SCIENCES
GEOPHYSICS
Tectonics
GEOLOGY
NeoTethys
microcontinents
East Indian Ocean
Greater India
West Australian Margin
Gondwana
Indian
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/indian-ocean-plate-australian-margin/11154
http://www.earthbyte.org/Resources/Gibbons_etal_2012_G3.html
https://doi.org/10.1029/2011gc003919
http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/8580
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Summary:The EarthByte Group presents a tectonic model of the Indian Ocean, to accompany a study by Gibbons et al., (2012). The dataset was created to investigate the first regional-scale tectonic model of the breakup of East Gondwana. The model shows that the breakup of East Gondwana started with the migration of a continental sliver, Argoland, in the Late Jurassic and was followed by breakup between Greater India and Australia-Antarctica in the Early Cretaceous, involving spreading reconfigurations, which left several sunken continental plateaus of Indian crust on the Australian plate. New evidence from seafloor off northwest Australia also shows that the majority of Greater India reached only about halfway up the West Australian margin, to the Wallaby-Zenith Plateaus. The tectonic model and accompanying documentation may be downloaded from the EarthByte website . Input files are ready for use with GPlates , a free to download, interactive plate-tectonics visualization software program. For further information, refer to the publications below:

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