Ecosystem in Arabian sea-

Arabian sea floor

A negative gravity anomaly correlates with the buried Laxmi Ridge. This ridge is
interpreted here to be a sliver of continental crust adjacent to the oceancontinent
transition which bounds thinned, probably intruded, transitional crust to the NE. The
oldest sea-floor spreading anomaly is anomaly 28 (65-66 Ma), breakup occurring at the
time of the Deccan Traps volcanic event. The earliest oceanic crust formed from two
phases of rift propagation which accommodates the angular disparity between the E-W
trending anomalies in the western Arabian Sea and the NE-SW trending western part of
the Laxmi Ridge. Flow-line projection shows that the Laxmi ridge forms the conjugate
structure to the northern Mascarene Plateau margin.
Gases of Arabian sea-

The sedimentary organic carbon maximum on the continental slope off western India is widely
believed to be due to the preferential preservation of deposited organic matter at water depths
where the intense oxygen minimum intersects the sea floor.
The hypothesis that the oxygen minimum in the eastern Arabian Sea is the site of enhanced
organic matter accumulation and preservation using analyses of suites of samples with wide
geographical coverage along this margin