Evolution of the Eastern Indian Ocean: New Constraints from Satellite Altimetry Data (Paleoceanographic Mapping Project Progress Report No. 29-1287)

• Main Author: Royer, Jean-Yves
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Institute for Geophysics 1987
• Subjects: plate tectonics; plate reconstruction; Indian Ocean; satellite altimetry data; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Indian; Hayes; Southeast Indian Ridge; Wharton; Australian Antarctic Basin; Australian-Antarctic Basin; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/67589; https://doi.org/10.15781/T2610W99D

The opening of the Eastern Indian Ocean resulted in the dispersal of the three main pieces of Eastern Gondwana: India, Australia and East Antarctica. Based on the seafloor magnetic anomaly pattern recognized in the Central Indian Basin, the Crozet Basin, the Wharton .Basin and the Australian-Antarct...