Lau Ridge

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Lau Ridge is a submarine volcanic ridge in the southwest Pacific Ocean that forms part of the complex tectonic boundary between the Australian and Pacific Plates near Fiji and Tonga.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf submarine volcanic ridge
undersea geological feature
associatedWith Australian Plate NERFINISHED
Pacific Plate NERFINISHED
subduction of Pacific Plate beneath Australian Plate
formedBy plate convergence between Australian Plate and Pacific Plate
formsPartOf complex plate boundary zone
geologicallyActive true
hasEnvironment deep-marine
hasGeologicalNature tectonic
volcanic
hasMorphology elongate ridge
hasTectonicSetting back-arc spreading environment
hasVolcanismType submarine volcanism
isPartOf Lau-Tonga region NERFINISHED
isUnder Pacific Ocean seafloor
liesEastOf Fiji Islands NERFINISHED
liesWestOf Tonga Trench NERFINISHED
locatedIn southwest Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED
southwestern Pacific back-arc region
near Fiji NERFINISHED
Tonga NERFINISHED
partOf Lau Basin region NERFINISHED
tectonic boundary between Australian Plate and Pacific Plate
relatedTo Lau back-arc basin NERFINISHED

Referenced by (4)

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

Lau Basin adjacentTo Lau Ridge
Fiji Basin boundedBy Lau Ridge
Lau Basin boundedBy Lau Ridge
back-arc Lau Basin boundedBy Lau Ridge
subject surface form: Lau Basin