Ontong Java and Kerguelen Plateaux: Cretaceous Icelands?

• Main Authors: Coffin, M.F., Gahagan, L.M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1995
• Subjects: Kerguelen; Pacific; Indian; Broken Ridge; Iceland
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/52421/; http://jgs.lyellcollection.org/cgi/content/abstract/152/6/1047

Together with Iceland, the two giant oceanic plateaux, Ontong Java in the western Pacific and Kerguelen/Broken Ridge in the Indian Ocean, are accumulations of mafic igneous rock which were not formed by ‘normal’ seafloor spreading. We compare published geochronological, crustal structure, and subsid...