Murray Ridge in Indian Ocean

&
Owen fracture Zone
Presented By:
Zain Muqri
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The NE-SW trending Murray Ridge System

in the northern Arabian Sea extends about
750 km. The Murray Ridge System is
divided into basins and ridges.
The Murray Ridge System separates the
Indian and Arabian Plates, and the Indian
and Eurasian Plates
Trough where more than 8 km of clastic
sediments

The Murray Ridge

System is interpreted
as a transform margin
of the Indian Plate,
that is active since
Upper Cretaceous.
Stages of
transpression and
transtension caused
negative and positive
flower structures

It contrasts with the uneven

topography of the 220 kmlong, 50 km-wide, and up to
1700 m-high central ridge.
Seafloor spreading at the
Sheba Ridge started
around 20 Ma,
Whereas subduction in the
Makran area began in the
Late Cretaceous

Murray

The Owen Fracture Zone

is an 800-km-long
The southern Owen Ridge is
a 300 km-long,
50-km wide, and up to
2000 m-high.
It is older than 3 to 6 Ma.

The Late Miocene

episode of deformation
(89 Ma) described
above contrasts with
the 1520 Ma age
previously assessed for
the major uplift of the
Owen Ridge.