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Reconstructing ocean spreading when half your record is now in the mantle (or: a plug for my new paper)

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Chris Rowan

If you’re studying the last 100 million years or so of plate tectonics, the history of sea-floor spreading recorded by the magnetic stripes that parallel and extend away from the Earth’s ocean ridges is a key source of information. Each … Continue reading →