The Ninetyeast Ridge and its Relation to the Kerguelen, Amsterdam and St. Paul Hotspots in the Indian Ocean
<p style="text-align:justify;"> The Ninetyeast Ridge is an ∼5500 km long, north–south-oriented, submarine volcanic ridge in the eastern Indian Ocean that formed from magmatism associated with the deep-seated Kerguelen mantle plume as the Indian plate drifted rapidly northward during...
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Oxford University Press
2013
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