Name: Joseph Bales                                                                     Date submitted: Jan. 25, 2000

Tentative Paper Title: Intraplate deformation of the Indo-Australian plate

Description/Thesis statement: This paper will discuss the various features relating to the deformation of what is commonly referred to as the Indo-Australian plate. These discussions will be focused on intraplate tectonics and will include such topics as deformation in the Wharton Basin (Delpus et al., 1998). It will also discuss crustal shortening in the area of the Ninetyeast Ridge (Chamot-Rooke et al., 1993; Orman et al., 1995). Finally, there will be a discussion of the evidence for three smaller plates that may make up the Indo-Australian plate and how they relate to previously mentioned features and processes (Royer and Gordon, 1997).

Citations:

Chamot-Rooke, N., Jestin, F., and others, 1993, Intraplate shortening in the central Indian
            Ocean determined from a 2100-km-long north-south deep seismic reflection
            profile: Geology, v. 21, p. 1043-1046.

Delpus, C., Diament, M., and others, 1998, Direct evidence of active deformation in the
            eastern Indian oceanic plate: Geology, v. 26, p. 131-134.

Orman, J. V., Cochran, J. R., and others, 1995, Distribution of shortening between the Indian
            and Australian plates in the central Indian Ocean: Earth and Planetary Science
            Letters, v. 133, p. 35-46.

Royer, J.-Y., and Gordon, R. G., 1997, The motion and boundary between the Capricorn
            and Australian plates: Science, v. 227, p. 1268-1274.