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Journal of Petrology | Volume 43 | Number 7 | Pages 1105-1108 | 2002
© Oxford University Press 2002

Origin and Evolution of the Kerguelen Plateau, Broken Ridge and Kerguelen Archipelago: Editorial

PAUL J. WALLACE1,*, FREDERICK A. FREY2, DOMINIQUE WEIS3,{dagger} and MILLARD F. COFFIN4,5,6

1DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, OR 97403-1272, USA
2DEPARTMENT OF EARTH, ATMOSPHERIC AND PLANETARY SCIENCES, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02139, USA
3DÉPARTEMENT DES SCIENCES DE LA TERRE ET DE L’ENVIRONNEMENT, UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES CP 160/02, AVENUE F. D. ROOSEVELT 50, B-1050 BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
4OCEAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, 1-15-1 MINAMIDAI, NAKANO-KU, TOKYO 164-8639, JAPAN
5INSTITUTE FOR FRONTIER RESEARCH ON EARTH EVOLUTION, JAPAN MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER, 2-15 NATSUSHIMA-CHO, YOKOSUKA 237-0061, JAPAN
6INSTITUTE FOR GEOPHYSICS, JACKSON SCHOOL OF GEOSCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, 4412 SPICEWOOD SPRINGS ROAD, BUILDING 600, AUSTIN, TX 78759-8500, USA

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Large igneous provinces (LIPs) are constructed when copious amounts of mantle-derived magma enter the Earth’s crust in localized regions. Although the Kerguelen Plateau and Broken Ridge are now submarine, they formed as a contiguous, largely subaerial LIP during Cretaceous time in the eastern Indian Ocean. Subsequently, they were separated by sea-floor spreading beginning in Middle Eocene time along the Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR; Fig. 1). The Kerguelen Archipelago is a Cenozoic feature constructed on the Northern Kerguelen Plateau (NKP; Fig. 1). Together with the ~82–38 Ma hotspot track formed by the Ninetyeast Ridge, the Kerguelen Plateau, Broken Ridge and Kerguelen Archipelago represent ~119 Myr of volcanism that has been attributed to the Kerguelen mantle plume. Although the igneous basement of the Kerguelen Plateau had been sampled at Sites 738, 747, 749 and 750 (Fig. 1) by Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Legs 119 and 120, Leg 183 was . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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