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Repeat ridge jumps and microcontinent separation: insights from NE Arabian Sea

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Title Repeat ridge jumps and microcontinent separation: insights from NE Arabian Sea
 
Creator MISRA, AA
SINHA, N
MUKHERJEE, S
 
Subject MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
INDIAN CONTINENTAL-MARGIN
CRUSTAL ACCRETION BENEATH
VOLCANIC RIFTED MARGINS
LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE
AXIAL MAGMA CHAMBER
EAST PACIFIC RISE
SPREADING CENTER
REYKJANES RIDGE
SEYCHELLES MICROCONTINENT
Ridge jump
Seychelles-India separation
Laxmi ridge
Gravity modelling
Volcano-stratigraphy
 
Description Microcontinents separate due to ridge jumps associate either asymmetric sea floor spreading or plume -ridge interactions. India separated from Seychelles at similar to 64 Ma by asymmetric sea floor spreading initially when the spreading centre in the Mascarene Basin jumped towards the Indian sub-continent between magnetic chrons C29 and C28. The subsequent tectonics is difficult to comprehend since Laxmi Ridge-another microcontinent-formed during the later phase. Most of the studies considered the Laxmi Ridge as a sliver. Others considered it to be oceanic crust. High resolution, deep (similar to 25 km) seismic data reveals that (i) the ridge possesses > 15 km deep sea-ward dipping reflector (SDR) packages; (ii) normal faulted rift valleys devoid of syn-rift sedimentary packages; and (iii) axial magma chambers 5 7 km beneath the ridge top. Additionally, from 2D forward gravity models we deduce that the ridge most possibly comprises of high density (oceanic) crust. We conclude the Laxrni Ridge to be indeed composed of oceanic crust and a fossil spreading centre. We thus identified the ridge jumps and their relation to the Seychelles microcontinent separation. Previous numerical models suggest that the time required for a ridge jump is controlled by magmatic heating, spreading rate at the ridge, and plate ages. For repeated ridge jumps, the additional factor is the dynamic relation between the plume and lithosphere in terms of melt transfer and heating. We find that the medium spreading rates and high magmatic heating due to the Reunion plume and young plates favoured rapid and repeated ridge jumps towards the plume. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
 
Publisher ELSEVIER SCI LTD
 
Date 2016-01-15T04:33:14Z
2016-01-15T04:33:14Z
2015
 
Type Article
 
Identifier MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY, 59,406-428
0264-8172
1873-4073
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2014.08.019
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/17767
 
Language en