Middle and Late Cretaceous History of the Indian Ocean

• Main Authors: Holmes, Mary Anne, Watkins, David K.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1992
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Antarctic; Austral; Kerguelen; Indian; Wharton; Broken Ridge; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/geosciencefacpub/83

By the Late Jurassic the Somali and Mozambique basins opened to form a restricted west Indian Ocean and rifting of fragments from Gondwana formed the Argo Basin to the north. The east Indian Ocean opened during the Early Cretaceous when India separated from Australo-Antarctica to form the Wharton Ba...