page_title: Bowers Ridge
hierarchical_section_title: Bowers Ridge
caption_attribution_description: English: This file was created by cropping and markup of a public domain file (Based Wikipedia File:Hawaii hotspot.jpg which was originally generated by National Geophysical Data Center/USGS as published at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/2minrelief.html). Names of geological features were added based on a series of references, including: Zabanbark; The Petroleum Resource Potential of the Bering Sea Region; Oceanology, 2009, Vol. 49, No. 5, pp. 729–739. Verzhbitsky et al.; Plate Tectonics of the Northern Part of the Pacific Ocean; Oceanology, 2007, Vol. 47, No. 5, pp. 705–717. Takahashi, The Bering Sea and paleoceanography; Deep-Sea Research II 52 (2005) 2080–2091 Shapiro; Cenozoic Volcanic Rocks of North Kamchatka: in Search of Subduction Zones; Geotectonics, 2011, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 210–224.
context_page_description: The Bowers Ridge is located in the southern part of the Aleutian Basin. It extends over 900 km in an arc, starting in the southeast at the Aleutian Arc and terminating to the northwest at the Shirshov Ridge. The Bowers Ridge arc separates the Aleutian Basin from the Bowers Basin, which it encloses. The ridge is not currently seismically active. The northern slope of the ridge is steeper than the southern slope. On the Aleutian side, the ridge is rimmed by a trough filled with a sedimentary sequence 9–10 km thick.
  The average age of the Bowers Ridge is about 30 My. Rock from the upper part of the Bowers Ridge was determined to be of Miocene age. Hence the Bowers Ridge and the southern part of the Shirshov Ridge are of roughly the same age since the adjacent region of the Shirshov Ridge is dated at 33 My B.P.
context_section_description: The Bowers Ridge is located in the southern part of the Aleutian Basin. It extends over 900 km in an arc, starting in the southeast at the Aleutian Arc and terminating to the northwest at the Shirshov Ridge.  The Bowers Ridge arc separates the Aleutian Basin from the Bowers Basin, which it encloses. The ridge is not currently seismically active. The northern slope of the ridge is steeper than the southern slope. On the Aleutian side, the ridge is rimmed by a trough filled with a sedimentary sequence 9–10 km thick.
  The average age of the Bowers Ridge is about 30 My (Late Oligocene).  Rock from the upper part of the Bowers Ridge was determined to be of Miocene age. Hence the Bowers Ridge and the southern part of the Shirshov Ridge are of roughly the same age since the adjacent region of the Shirshov Ridge is dated at  33 My B.P. (Early Oligocene).
caption: Bering Sea features. Bowers Ridge is in the southern part of the Bering Sea.
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