Davie Ridge

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Davie Ridge is a submarine ridge in the Indian Ocean that forms part of the tectonic boundary between the Somali Plate and adjacent plates.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Davie Ridge canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf submarine ridge
undersea feature
associatedWithTectonicPlate Lwandle Plate
Nubian Plate
linked to: African Plate

Somali Plate
formedBy tectonic processes
geologicalNature transform ridge
hasGeologicalProcess intraplate deformation
seafloor deformation
strike-slip faulting
hasMorphology elongate ridge structure
hasScientificFieldOfStudy geophysics
marine geology
plate tectonics
hasTectonicRole accommodates relative motion between African plate fragments
isPartOf intra-oceanic plate boundary zone
isSubjectOf bathymetric surveys
geophysical surveys
seismicity studies
locatedIn Indian Ocean
locatedOffCoastOf East Africa
Madagascar
partOf Somali Basin region
linked to: Somali Basin

tectonic boundary between Somali Plate and adjacent plates
relatedTo East African Rift System
linked to: East African Rift
separates Lwandle Plate
Nubian Plate
linked to: African Plate

Somali Plate
tectonicSetting plate boundary
underlies Indian Ocean seafloor

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Somali Plate hasBoundary Davie Ridge
Madagascar Plateau boundedBy Davie Ridge
Somali Basin boundedBy Davie Ridge