Title
Origin of the northern Indus Fan and Murray Ridge, Northern Arabian Sea: Interpretation from seismic and magnetic imaging
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-30-2002
Abstract
The nature and origin of the sediments and crust of the Murray Ridge System and northern Indus Fan are discussed. The uppermost unit consists of Middle Miocene to recent channel-levee complexes typical of submarine fans. This unit is underlain by a second unit composed of hemipelagic to pelagic sediments deposited during the drift phase after the break-up of India-Seychelles-Africa. A predrift sequence of assumed Mesozoic age occuring only as observed above basement ridges is composed of highly consolidated rocks. Different types of the acoustic basement were detected, which reflection seismic pattern, magnetic anomalies and gravity field modeling indicate to be of continental character. The continental crust is extremely thinned in the northern Indus Fan, lacking a typical block-faulted structure. The Indian continent-ocean transition is marked on single MCS profiles by sequences of seaward-dipping reflectors (SDR). In the northwestern Arabian Sea, the Indian plate margin is characterized by several phases of volcanism and deformation revealed from interpretation of multichannel seismic profiles and magnetic anomalies. From this study, thinned continental crust spreads between the northern Murray Ridge System and India underneath the northern Indus Fan. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Tectonophysics
First Page
127
Last Page
143
Recommended Citation
Gaedicke, C., Schlüter, H., Roeser, H., Prexl, A., Schreckenberger, B., Meyer, H., Reichert, C., Clift, P., & Amjad, S. (2002). Origin of the northern Indus Fan and Murray Ridge, Northern Arabian Sea: Interpretation from seismic and magnetic imaging. Tectonophysics, 355 (1-4), 127-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-1951(02)00137-3