Wharton Basin

Wharton Basin is the marine area of the north east quarter of the Indian Ocean. It is named after William Wharton (1843–1905), Hydrographer of the Navy. Alternative names are Cocos Basin (after the Cocos Islands) and West Australian Basin.^[1]

It lies east of the Ninety East Ridge and west of Western Australia.

It is of interest in relation to Indian Ocean floor movement and adjacent fracture zones^[2] and the relationship between the Indian and Australian plates ^[3] and is one of a number of features of the Indian Ocean that has been studied extensively.^[4]

References

^ Sclater, John G.; Fisher, Robert L. (1974). "Evolution of the East: Central Indian Ocean, with Emphasis on the Tectonic Setting of the Ninetyeast Ridge". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 85 (5): 683–702. Bibcode:1974GSAB...85..683S. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1974)85<683:eoteci>2.0.co;2.
^ Larson, Roger L.; Carpenter, George B.; Diebold, John B. (1978). "A geophysical study of the Wharton Basin near the Investigator Fracture Zone". Journal of Geophysical Research. 83 (B2): 773. Bibcode:1978JGR....83..773L. doi:10.1029/jb083ib02p00773.
^ Robinson, D. P.; C. Henry; S. Das; J. H. Woodhouse (11 May 2002). "The discovery of a conjugate system of faults in the Wharton Basin intraplate deformation zone". Science. 292 (5519): 1145–1148. doi:10.1126/science.1059395. PMID 11349145. S2CID 26211752.
^ Schlich, R., (1982). The Indian Ocean: Aseismic ridges, spreading centers and oceanic basins. In A.E.M. Nairn and F.G. Stehli , (Eds.), The Ocean Basins and Margins, vol. 6, The Indian Ocean, Plenum, New-York.

External links

Satish C. Singh; Nugroho Hananto; et al. (4 January 2017). "The discovery of a conjugate system of faults in the Wharton Basin intraplate deformation zone". Science Advances. 3 (1): e1601689. Bibcode:2017SciA....3E1689S. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1601689. PMC 5214956. PMID 28070561.

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[1] Sclater, John G.; Fisher, Robert L. (1974). "Evolution of the East: Central Indian Ocean, with Emphasis on the Tectonic Setting of the Ninetyeast Ridge". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 85 (5): 683–702. Bibcode:1974GSAB...85..683S. doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1974)85<683:eoteci>2.0.co;2.

[2] Larson, Roger L.; Carpenter, George B.; Diebold, John B. (1978). "A geophysical study of the Wharton Basin near the Investigator Fracture Zone". Journal of Geophysical Research. 83 (B2): 773. Bibcode:1978JGR....83..773L. doi:10.1029/jb083ib02p00773.

[3] Robinson, D. P.; C. Henry; S. Das; J. H. Woodhouse (11 May 2002). "The discovery of a conjugate system of faults in the Wharton Basin intraplate deformation zone". Science. 292 (5519): 1145–1148. doi:10.1126/science.1059395. PMID 11349145. S2CID 26211752.

[4] Schlich, R., (1982). The Indian Ocean: Aseismic ridges, spreading centers and oceanic basins. In A.E.M. Nairn and F.G. Stehli , (Eds.), The Ocean Basins and Margins, vol. 6, The Indian Ocean, Plenum, New-York.

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