Thinned continental crust intruded by volcanics beneath the northern Bay of Bengal

• Published in: Marine and Petroleum Geology
• Main Authors: Sibuet, Jean-claude, Klingelhoefer, Frauke, Huang, Yuan-ping, Yeh, Yi-ching, Rangin, Claude, Lee, Chao-shing, Hsu, Shu-kun
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Sci Ltd 2016
• Subjects: Northern Bay of Bengal; Wide-angle seismic reflection and refraction data; Thinned continental crust intruded by volcanics; East Ridge; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00345/45571/45180.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.07.006; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00345/45571/

Since the early Cretaceous, the Bay of Bengal was formed during rifting between India and Antarctica and then by subsequent seafloor spreading. The nature of the crust underlying the Bay of Bengal is oceanic south of 15°N, but remains unknown (thinned continental crust, serpentinized mantle or ocean...