Southeast Indian Ridge

Southeast Indian Ridge

The Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR) is a divergent tectonic plate boundary located along the seafloor of the southern Indian Ocean. It separates the Indo-Australian Plate to the north from the Antarctic Plate to the south. [ Stow, D. A. V. (2006) "Oceans : an illustrated reference" Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226776646 - page 127 for map of Indian Ocean and ridges ]

The SEIR extends between the Rodrigues Triple Point in the southern Indian Ocean travels through the Southern Ocean south of the Australian continent on to the Macquarie Triple Junction in the southwest Pacific Ocean.

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