The juvenescence of the Walvis Ridge – evidence for recent submarine volcanism from hydro-acoustic data in the vicinity of Tristan da Cunha

• Main Authors: Geissler, Wolfram, Wintersteller, Paul, Strack, Anne, Kammann, Janina, Jegen, Marion, Maia, Marcia, Jokat, Wilfried
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Gough; Inaccessible Island; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Tristan
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/45000/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.51662

The Walvis Ridge-Rio Grande Rise System is the only seamount chain in the Atlantic that is known being continuously active since the Cretaceous (130 Ma) and one of very few worldwide, that links an active hotspot (Tristan-Gough) with a continental flood basalt province (the Paraná-Etendeka province...