| The Carlsberg Ridge (CAR) is the present plate boundary between Somalia and India. It extends north of the Equator from 57 degrees E at Owen FZ to 66 degrees E where it joins the Central Indian Ridge (CIR), the NW-SE main ridge trend changing to N-S. In the 1960s, CAR was one of the first mid-oceanic ridges to be surveyed, and in the McKenzie and Sclater (1971) Indian ocean synthesis its evolution appears as one of the soundest results of that work: fast spreading from A28 (anomaly 28 epoch) to A23, slow spreading from A5 to the present. After the identification of the A20-A24 series in the Arabian basin by Whitmarsh (1974), no new specific study was devoted to this ridge, although the extensive survey of the surrounding areas showed its probable complex... |
