Reply to the comment of Talwani et al. (2017) on the Sibuet et al. (2016) paper entitled “Thinned continental crust intruded by volcanics beneath the northern Bay of Bengal”

Jean Claude Sibuet, Frauke Klingelhoefer, Yi Ching Yeh, Claude Rangin, Chao Shing Lee

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Abstract

The northern Bay of Bengal velocity-depth profiles do not follow the velocity-depth curve for the North Atlantic volcanic margins, and only partially the Kerguelen plume velocity-depth curves. Compared with the South China Sea northern margin proxy, we still suggest that the Bay of Bengal crust is thinned continental crust intruded by post-rifting volcanics, as also shown by the interpretation of the numerous high-quality deep multichannel seismic profiles we collected there. What was supposed to be underplating might be sills intruded through the lower thinned continental crust.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1126-1129
Number of pages4
JournalMarine and Petroleum Geology
Volume88
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2017

Keywords

  • Multichannel seismic profiles
  • Northern Bay of Bengal
  • Thinned continental crust intruded by volcanics
  • Wide-angle and reflection seismic profiles

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