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Arabia's slow dance with India

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India and Arabia collide with Eurasia at slightly different velocities. Detailed mapping of the Arabian Sea suggests that this motion started between 3 and 8 million years ago, possibly with a transfer of an Arabian plate wedge to the Indian plate.

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Figure 1: A satellite-derived gravity anomaly map of the Owen fracture zone region in the Arabian Sea, as a proxy for seafloor bathymetry.

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  1. Charles DeMets is in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA. chuck@geology.wisc.edu,

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DeMets, C. Arabia's slow dance with India. Nature Geosci 1, 10–11 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo.2007.56

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