Evidence for motion between Nubia and Somalia along the Southwest Indian ridge

1999/03/01 by Dezhi Chu, Richard G. Gordon · 182 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #African Plate #Boundary (topology) #East African Rift #Geodesy #Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide #Geology #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Induced seismicity #Paleontology #Plate tectonics #Ridge #Rift #Seismology #Tectonics #earthquake and tectonic studies

paper · doi:10.1038/18014

published in Nature 398(6722), 64-67 (Springer Science and Business Media LLC)

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Citations

• A diffuse plate boundary model for Indian Ocean tectonics
• Present‐day motion along the Owen Fracture Zone and Dalrymple Trough in the Arabian Sea
• Effect of recent revisions to the geomagnetic reversal time scale on estimates of current plate motions
• Current plate motions
• THE PLATE TECTONIC APPROXIMATION: Plate Nonrigidity, Diffuse Plate Boundaries, and Global Plate Reconstructions

Cited by

• Tectonic interpretation of the Andrew Bain transform fault: Southwest Indian Ocean
• Evolution of the Southwest Indian Ridge from 55°45′E to 62°E: Changes in plate‐boundary geometry since 26 Ma
• Propagation of a melting anomaly along the ultraslow Southwest Indian Ridge between 46°E and 52°20′E: interaction with the Crozet hotspot?
• The angular velocity of Nubia relative to Somalia and the location of the Nubia-Somalia-Antarctica triple junction
• Rodrigues triple junction [wikipedia]
• Southwest Indian Ridge [wikipedia]