Evidence from the asymmetry of fast-spreading ridges that the axial topographic high is due to extensional stresses

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1998-01-28

• Fields of study

  Geology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/28596
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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