Nature and Evolution of Deep Water Carbonate Drifts in the past 3 Million years, Inner Sea of the Maldives Archipelago, Equatorial Indian Ocean

The Maldives atolls, the very top of one of the largest modern carbonate platforms, occupy the central and largest part of the Chagos-Laccadives ridge located in the equatorial Indian Ocean. In the central part of the archipelago, the large atolls form t