Getting over continent ocean boundaries

G Eagles, L Pérez-Díaz, N Scarselli - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
The idea of a simple linear boundary between continental and oceanic crust at extended
continental margins is widely recognized to be an oversimplification. Despite this, such …

The breakup of East Gondwana: Assimilating constraints from Cretaceous ocean basins around India into a best‐fit tectonic model

AD Gibbons, JM Whittaker… - Journal of geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Published models for the Cretaceous seafloor‐spreading history of East Gondwana result in
unlikely tectonic scenarios for at least one of the plate boundaries involved and/or violate …

Plate-tectonic evolution of the deep ocean basins adjoining the western continental margin of India—a proposed model for the early opening scenario

GC Bhattacharya, V Yatheesh - Petroleum geosciences: Indian contexts, 2015 - Springer
The available plate-tectonic evolution models suggest that the deep ocean basins adjoining
the western continental margin of India have evolved largely due to break-up and dispersal …

Structural evolution and sediment depositional system along the transform margin-Palar–Pennar basin, Indian east coast

S Dasgupta, M Biswas, S Mukherjee… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Continental transform margins are characterized by sub-vertical strike-slip faults and rapid
change in thermal gradient across the margin from continental to oceanic crust. The …

Sea level changes in the upper Aptian-lower/middle (?) Turonian sequence of Cauvery Basin, India–An ichnological perspective

AR Paranjape, KG Kulkarni, AS Kale - Cretaceous Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Cauvery Basin, a pericratonic rift basin along the Eastern Continental Margin of India,
evolved during the breakup of the Eastern Gondwanaland. It exposes both syn-rift and later …

85° E Ridge, India–constraints on its development and architecture

M Choudhuri, M Nemeok, C Stuart… - Journal of the …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The 85° E Ridge is a buried aseismic ridge running parallel to the 85° E meridian in the Bay
of Bengal, India. Its origin has been a subject of debate, with opinions ranging from an …

Implication of transfer zones in rift fault propagation: example from Cauvery basin, Indian east coast

S Dasgupta - Tectonics and Structural Geology: Indian Context, 2019 - Springer
The Cauvery basin, an important Indian petroliferous peri-cratonic Mesozoic rift basin trends
NE. The basin formed by break-up of eastern Gondwana landmass in Late Jurassic to Early …

Continent‐Ocean Transition or Boundary? Crowd‐Sourced Seismic Interpretations of the East‐India Passive Margin

CE Bond, J Alcalde, RWH Butler, K McDermott… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
On the edge of our continents, oceanic crust meets continental crust. At passive margins,
those where there is no active tectonics, subduction or transform faulting, these crustal types …

Transfer zone geometry in the offshore Cauvery Basin, India

S Dasgupta, A Maitra - Atlas of Structural Geological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The Cauvery Basin, a pericratonic rift basin evolved during Jurassic to Early
Cretaceous time as the eastern Gondwanaland rifted. Transfer zones conserve the amount …

Propagation of hotspot volcanism driven flexure in oceanic crust–85° E Ridge case study

M Choudhuri, M Nemčok, R Melichar… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2017 - Elsevier
The study focuses on the flexural down-war** of oceanic crust related to the Early
Cretaceous hotspot volcanic chain in offshore East India, drawing from robust reflection …