Uni geologists make red-hot discovery
International research led by Curtin University geologists has found that a volcanic province in the Indian Ocean erupted for 30 million years, fuelled by a constantly moving ‘conveyor belt’ of magma.
It’s believed this magma ‘conveyor belt', created by shifts in the seabed, continuously made space available for the molten rock to flow for millions of years, beginning about 120 million years ago.
Research lead Qiang Jiang, a PhD candidate from Curtin’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the studied volcanoes were in the Kerguelen Plateau, located in the Indian Ocean about 3000km south-west of Fremantle. . .
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