Nazca Ridge
The Nazca Ridge is an ocean ridge in the southern Pacific Ocean. It lies on the Nazca Plate and is being subducted in the Peru-Chile Trench under the South American Plate by ongoing plate motion.[1]
References
External links
- Jyotiranjan S. Ray et al. (June 2012). "Chronology and Geochemistry of Lavas from the Nazca Ridge and Easter Seamount Chain: an ∼30 Myr Hotspot Record". Journal of Petrology (Oxford University Press) 53 (6). doi:10.1093/petrology/egs021.