The Agulhas Plateau is limited by the Agulhas Passage to the north; by the Agulhas Basin to the west; and by the Transkei Basin to the north-east.[1]
Summit depth
2,500 m (8,200 ft)
Height
2,500 m (8,200 ft)
Summit area
300,000 km2 (120,000 sq mi)
Location
Location
500 km (310 mi) south of Africa
Coordinates
39°S26°E / 39°S 26°E / -39; 26
Country
South Africa/International
Geology
Type
LIP, hotspot volcano
Age of rock
100 to 94 Ma
The Agulhas Plateau is an oceanic plateau located in the south-western Indian Ocean about 500 km (310 mi) south of South Africa.[2] It is a remainder of a large igneous province (LIP), the Southeast African LIP, that formed 140 to 95 million years ago (Ma) at or near the triple junction where Gondwana broke-up into Antarctica, South America, and Africa. The plateau formed 100 to 94 Ma together with Northeast Georgia Rise and Maud Rise (now located near the Falkland Island and Antarctica respectively) when the region passed over the Bouvet hotspot.[3][4][5]
^Parsiegla, Gohl & Uenzelmann-Neben 2008, 2 Geological and tectonic background.
^Uenzelmann-Neben et al. 1999, Introduction and Data Acquisition, p. 1941.
^Gohl & Uenzelmann-Neben 2001, Introduction.
^Gohl & Uenzelmann-Neben 2001, Abstract.
^Gohl, Uenzelmann-Neben & Grobys 2011, Timing and extent of Large Igneous Province formation, pp. 384-385.
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