Posted: Mar 20, 2017 1:31 pm
ginckgo wrote:Florian wrote:
Because another Ridge eventually started to be active thus releasing the tension elsewhere. The Indian Ocean is full of these events which led to the successive separations of Madagascar, then the Mascarene plateau, then India as shown by the age of the ocean floor and retrofitting:
So regional activity can eventually stop but globally, activity is steadily increasing.
So someone has done some quantitative analyses of the tension changes and balances?
Based on what data, the age of seafloor? It may be possible to make an inventory for each ridge in the form "this ridge was active from that date to that date and produced that surface of seafloor" and look for correlations between ridge extinction and ridge initiation.