Nauru Basin is an area in the Pacific Ocean of the Marshall Islands, around the Nauru area, hence its name. It is composed of many different islands and seamounts . Wōdejebato is one source of turbidites in the Nauru Basin.

Nauru is positioned in the Nauru Basin of the Pacific Ocean, on a part of the Pacific Plate that formed at a mid oceanic ridge at 132 Ma. [2] . From mid Eocene (35 Ma) to Oligocene times a submarine volcano built up over a hotspot, and formed a seamount composed of basalt. [2] . The seamount rises over 4300 m above the ocean floor.

Because interpretations of this Cretaceous volcanic complex are strongly biased by beliefs about the nature and age of the underlying oceanic crust, we believe it important to review here the evidence for the original claim of a Late Jurassic base-ment age for the northern Nauru Basin.

Nauru Basin is a kind of anomalously shallow ocean floor, in view either of the acoustic nature (Talwani et al., 1977) and the thick pile of the sill-pillow complex interbedded with sediment (Worzel, Bryant, et al., 1973) in the Caribbean. On the other hand, the estimated total volume of the volcanics from the Nauru Basin is almost

Apr 1, 1991 · The proto-Nauru Basin was most probably near, or drifted near the anomalous south central Pacific region in the Early Cretaceous, perhaps between the two hotspots that were starting to form the Ontong-Java Plateau and the Marshall Gilbert Island chain.

Oct 8, 2005 · The Mesozoic Nauru Basin in the western Pacific was created by seafloor spreading in Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous time and was subsequently affected by Early Cretaceous flood volcanism approxim...

Sep 30, 2009 · Here, we examine the magnetic fidelity of the Nauru Basin basalts through rock magnetic and paleomagnetic approaches. We find the magnetic carriers in the lavas are unlike most basaltic units recovered by oceanic drilling in that they are magnetically soft.

Jan 1, 2004 · Nauru is located at the southern end of the Nauru Basin, an ocean basin, 4–5 km deep, that extends from the Marshall and Gilbert Islands in the northeast to the Ontong Java Plateau in the southwest (Fig. 24-1). The Nauru Basin contains a lineated sequence of Jurassic-Early Cretaceous magnetic anomalies (Larsen, 1976; Cande et al., 1978). This ...

Basin basalts are all normally magnetized, indicating that they were largely emplaced during the Cretaceous long normal event which lasted from 109 to 80 Myr BP.

We recognize three major chemical types of basalts in the Nauru Basin. We believe that different degrees of partial melting, modified by fractional crystallization and possibly by magma mixing at shallow depths, can explain the chemical differences among the three groups.