{"id":63728,"date":"2025-09-16T13:28:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T07:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=63728"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:38:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T08:08:37","slug":"carlsberg-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/carlsberg-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlsberg Ridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Carlsberg Ridge Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government recently signed a contract with the International Seabed Authority to explore polymetallic sulphur nodules in the Carlsberg Ridge.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Carlsberg Ridge<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a<\/span><b> mid-oceanic ridge<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (a divergent plate boundary) located in the <\/span><b>Indian Ocean.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ridge <\/span><b>extends from the triple junction of the African, Indian, and Australian tectonic plates<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (where it connects to the Mid-Indian Ridge) <\/span><b>northwest to the Gulf of Aden.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ridge <\/span><b>separates the Arabian Sea to the northeast from the Somali Basin to the southwest.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It marks the <\/span><b>boundary between the Somali Plate and the Indian Plate.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The mean depth of the Carlsberg Ridge is between some 6,000 and 12,000 feet (1,800 and 3,600 meters) below the sea surface, and it rises to a mean elevation of about 7,000 feet (2,100 meters) above the seafloor.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ridge <\/span><b>turns westward around the island of Socotra <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and e<\/span><b>ventually connects with the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/great-rift-valley\/\" target=\"_blank\">East African Rift System<\/a> by way of the Gulf of Aden. <\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">It is the<b style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> most prominent mid-ocean ridge<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> segment of the <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">western Indian Ocean<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which contains a number of <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">earthquake epicenters.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/india-gets-licence-to-scour-new-part-of-indian-ocean-for-precious-metals\/article70053704.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsberg Ridge is a mid-oceanic ridge (a divergent plate boundary) located in the Indian Ocean. 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