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

• Published in: Marine and Petroleum Geology
• Main Authors: Sibuet, Claude, Klingelhoefer, Frauke, Huang, Yuan-Ping, Yeh, Yi-Ching, Rangin, Claude, Lee, Chao-Shing, Hsu, Shu-kun
• Other Authors: Institute of Applied Geophysics, National Taiwan Ocean University, 44 rue du Cloître, 29280 Plouzané, IFREMER Centre de Brest (IFREMER), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Unité de recherche Géosciences Marines (Ifremer) (GM), Department of Atmospheric Sciences Taoyuan City, National Central University Taiwan (NCU), Taiwan Ocean Research Institute, Géoazur (GEOAZUR 7329), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Sud )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; East Ridge; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01744829; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2016.07.006

International audience 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, serpen...