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There seems to have been a lapse in the crustal spreading of the sea floor from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge during the late Tertiary period.
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SCHNEIDER, E., VOGT, P. Discontinuities in the History of Sea-floor Spreading. Nature 217, 1212–1222 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2171212a0
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