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Science 8 June 2001:
Vol. 292. no. 5523, pp. 1850 - 1851
DOI: 10.1126/science.1061082
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Perspectives

PLATE TECTONICS:
Indian Ocean Actively Deforms

Christine Deplus

According to plate tectonics, plates are rigid and deform only at narrow boundaries but studies have shown that intraplate deformation can occur in continental plates. In her Perspective, Deplus discusses recent evidence for active deformation in the Indian Ocean, offering a rare opportunity to study intraplate deformation of oceanic lithosphere.

The author is at the Laboratoire Gravimétrie et Géodynamique, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and CNRS, 4, place Jussieu, 75252 Paris, France. E-mail: deplus{at}ipgp.jussieu.fr

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)