The Indian Ocean

Gravity Anomaly Maps

In this overview map the separate maps are shown. The numbers correspond to the list of areas below. Click in the overview map above or on an area name in the index below in order to get a detailed (but small) map of the area; large maps (1280 by 1024 pixels) are also available. All maps overlap at least 5 degrees so the actual map boundaries differ slightly from the boundaries in the overview map above.

  • 1 Gulf of Aden
  • 2 Arabian Sea
  • 3 Indian coast
  • 4 Bay of Bengal
  • 5 South China Sea
  • 6 Philippine Sea
  • 7 Somali Basin
  • 8 Central Indian Ocean Ridge (north)
  • 9 Chagos-Maldive-Laccadive Ridge
  • 10 Ninety-East Ridge (north)
  • 11 Java Sea
  • 12 Banda Sea
  • 13 Mozambique Channel
  • 14 Madagascar (north)
  • 15 Central Indian Ocean Ridge (south)
  • 16 Chagos
  • 17 Ninety-East Ridge (south)
  • 18 Java Trench
  • 19 Timor Sea
  • 20 Natal
  • 21 Madagascar (south)
  • 22 South-West Indian Ridge
  • 23 Indian Ocean Triple Junction
  • 24 Broken Ridge
  • 25 Wallaby Scarp Fracture Zone
  • 26 Perth
  • 27 Agulhas Plateau
  • 28 Crozet Basin
  • 29 Kerguelen Island
  • 30 South East Indian Ridge
  • 31 Diamantina Discontinuity
  • 32 Dronning Maud Land
  • 33 Enderby Basin
  • 34 Kerguelen (south)
  • 35 Wilkes Basin

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