RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, VOL. 18, ES2003, doi:10.2205/2018ES000617, 2018 Figure 2. (a) – Satellite gravity of the western Indian Ocean showing the various tectonic elements referred in the present study. (Modified after Sandwell and Smith [2009] and Ramana et al. [2015]. (b) – DEM of West Coast of Kerala (from Topex data) with major Shear Zones (McSZ: Mercara Shear Zone, MSZ: Moyar Shear Zone, PCSZ: Palaghat–Cauvery Shear Zone, KKPT: Karur–Kamabam–Painavu–Trichur, ACSZ: Achankovil Shear Zone) and major submarine features like Laccadivine-Chagos Ridge (LCR) Laccadive Basin, Allapey-Trivandrum Terrace Complex (ATTC), Pratap Ridge, Vishnu feracture Zone (VFZ) (Modified after [Collins et al., 2014; Santosh et al., 2015, 2017; Yatheesh et al. [2013]. Copyright 2018 by the Geophysical Center RAS. Generated from LaTeX source by ELXpaper, v.1.5 software package. |