CompuServe Messages

Doug >>Another mechanism is described in the Scientific American of July 1989. After India rifted away from Africa and Antarctica, at the end of the Cretaceous it was blown apart by the arrival of a hotspot that announced itself by erupting the tremendous Deccan traps. A rift formed there and split off a piece that contains the Seychelles islands NE of Madagascar; the rift is now the Carlsberg ridge, and seems to have been a relocation of an earlier rift that propelled India and carved off Madagascar. << That figures well for the large crescent that the Seychelles are part of with the spreading ridge between them and India….well balanced to boot. The pacific is different with the main motion in one direction. I am just speculating that the plateaus are crustal sections with a geological table. Is there any drilling core data available from these mesa like plateau in the mid western pacific? Kamron