Jan 16, 2018 · The Indian Ocean basin is the smallest of the five great subdivisions of the world ocean with 49.10 6 km 2 out of the 361.10 6 km 2 of the global ocean (Figure 1). It is closed to …

ICAnus 32,235-250 (1977) Origin of the Earth's Ocean Basins HERBERT FREY Geophysics Branch, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, arid Astronomy Program, …

Oceanic crust is much younger than most continental crust. Ocean basins form initially by the stretching and splitting (rifting) of continental crust and by the rise of mantle material and …

IO. OCEAN-BASIN EVOLUTION BY SEA-FLOOR SPREADING E. SPREADING AND MAGNETIC ANOMALIES 297 Vacquier et al. [17] recently have completed excellent sea-floor …

Dec 9, 2024 · For instance, the higher-than-normal Meiyu precipitation over the Yangtze–Huaihe valley in 2016 was related to the extremely strong western Pacific subtropical high (WPSH) …

Jul 1, 2012 · Global plate motion models provide a spatial and temporal framework for geological data and have been effective tools for exploring processes occurrin…

Mar 1, 2016 · Previous plate tectonic models of the Pacific Ocean basin have either focussed on identifying magnetic lineations and deriving relative plate motions between presently active …

Oct 1, 2018 · It is now clear that the Central Atlantic Ocean palaeobathymetry was already close to present-day depth since the Lower Cretaceous (>4000 m in the deep basin, Fig. 8 C). …

Jul 1, 2012 · Our model is underpinned by plate motions derived from reconstructing the seafloor-spreading history of the ocean basins and motions of the continents and utilizes a hybrid …

Mar 1, 2021 · Reconstructions of past seafloor age make it possible to quantify how plate tectonic forces, surface heat flow, ocean basin volume and global sea level have varied through …