Aden-Owen-Carlsberg Triple Junction
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Aden-Owen-Carlsberg Triple Junction
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The Aden-Owen-Carlsberg Triple Junction (AOC), also known as the Arabia–India–Somalia Triple Junction, is a triple junction that connects the Aden Ridge, Owen Fracture Zone, and Carlsberg Ridge in the northwest Indian Ocean. It has been described as one of only three RRF (ridge-ridge-fault) triple junctions on Earth, besides the Azores Triple Junction and Chile Triple Junction. However, because the fault arm of such unstable triple junctions tend to evolve into a spreading centre, all three case
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The junction of three tectonic plate boundaries in the northwest Indian Ocean
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2022-02-09T14:23:33Z
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