The rapid drift of the Indian tectonic plate

The breakup of the supercontinent Gondwanaland into Africa, Antarctica, Australia and India about 140 million years ago, and consequently the opening of the Indian Ocean, is thought to have been caused by heating of the lithosphere from below by a large plume whose relicts are now the Marion, Kergue...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Nature 2007-10, Vol.449 (7164), p.894-897
Hauptverfasser:	KUMAR, Prakash, XIAOHUI YUAN, RAVI KUMAR, M, KIND, Rainer, XUEQING LI, CHADHA, R. K
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Antarctica Breakup Cretaceous Earth sciences Earth, ocean, space Exact sciences and technology Fragments Geological time Geology Indian Indian Ocean Lithosphere Magnetism Paleomagnetism Plate tectonics Plates (tectonics) Plumes Roots Seismic tomography Tectonics. Structural geology. Plate tectonics
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