Posted on September 18, 2018 by Yonature
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According to the Maritime Zones Act 2005, natural resources refer to minerals and other non-living materials found in the subsoil and seabed and the marine organisms in a sedentary state, that is, they are unfit for movement when they are harvested or depend on Read More
Category: Environment Tags: black smoker zones, breccia series, continental shelf, echinoderms, ferromanganese crust, fractures, Gonwana, guyots, hydrothermal vents, maritime zones act 2005, mauritia, mauritius, microcontinent, midocean ridge, minerals, natural resources, polymetallic nodules, polymetallic sulphides, seabed, sedentary organims, subsoil, trenches, volcanic episodes, volcano
Posted on June 5, 2018 by Yonature
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Mauritius is located in the South West Indian Ocean Basin. The Indian Ocean itself started to expand during the splitting of Gondwana some 140 million years ago but was fully formed and filled to what it is now some 36 million years ago. It Read More
Category: Environment Tags: continental margin, corals, diving, fishes, giant crabs, indian ocean, limpet, mascarene islands, ocean bed, ocean floor, organisms seabed, plateau, reunion, ridge, rodrigues, saya de malha bank, sea vent, seabed, seafloor mauritius, starfish, trench
