Segmentation of the Central Indian Ridge between 12°12′ S and the Indian Ocean Triple Junction |
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| Authors: | Lindsay M Parson Philippe Patriat Roger C Searle Anne R Briais |
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| Institution: | (1) Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory, GU8 5UB Wormley, Surrey, U.K.;(2) Institut de Physique du Globe, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 5, France;(3) Department of Geological Sciences, University of Durham, South Road, DH1 3LE Durham, U.K.;(4) Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory, GU8 5UB Wormley, Surrey, U.K.;(5) Present address: GRGS, Observatoire Midi-Pyrenées, 18 Ave Edouard, 31055 Toulouse Cedex, France |
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| Abstract: | The present morphology and tectonic evolution of more than 1500 kilometres of the Central Indian Ridge are described and discussed following the integration of GLORIA side-scan sonographs with conventional geophysical datasets. Segmentation of the ridge occurs by a series of ridge axis discontinuities ranging in periodicity along strike from 275 km to less than 30 km. These segment boundaries we have classified into two types: first order fracture zones of offsets greater than 50 km which bound five major (mega-) segments, and smaller scale structures of a variety of offset styles and amplitudes which cut four of these segments. We refer to these as ridge-axis discontinuities. The frequent opposite sense of offset identified between the first order structures and the subordinate discontinuities between these major structures is interpreted as resulting from the adjustment to new kinematic parameters after magnetic anomaly 20. As far as our data allows us to determine, the central major segment is not subdivided by minor ridge axis discontinuities, which we suggest is a result of its proximity to the Rodriguez hotspot. |
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| Keywords: | Mid-Ocean Ridge Central Indian Ridge GLORIA segmentation |
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