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Evidence which bears on the processes of continental drift, ocean floor spreading and the appearance of mid-oceanic rises is rapidly accumulating. The assumption that the mid-oceanic rises represent a steady state1,2 leads to estimates of the rate of ocean floor spreading and of subsidence which in turn suggest geophysical tests of the theory.
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VOGT, P., OSTENSO, N. Steady State Crustal Spreading. Nature 215, 810–817 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215810b0
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