The Seismic Stratigraphy and Sedimentation along the Ninetyeast Ridge

The Ninetyeast Ridge (NER) is a ~5000 km-long aseismic volcanic ridge trending NS in the eastern Indian Ocean basin. It is widely accepted that NER formed from the trace of a single hotspot as the Indian plate moved northward during the Late Cretaceous and Early Cenozoic due to the linear age progre...

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Main Author: Eisin, Amy Elizabeth
Other Authors: Sager, William
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-08-7187