Global age of the ocean floor, spreading rates and asymmetries in crustal accretion

Age of the ocean floor


Spreading half-rates


Asymmetries in spreading

Gurnis, M., Moresi, L., and Müller, R.D, 2000, Models of mantle convection incorporating plate tectonics: The Australian Region since the Cretaceous, American Geophysical Union Monograph, The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, in press.

Gaina, C., Müller, R.D, Cande, S.C., 2000, Absolute plate motion, mantle flow and volcanism at the boundary between the Pacific and Indian Ocean mantle domains since 90 Ma, American Geophysical Union Monograph, The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, in press

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Gurnis, M., Müller, R.D., and Moresi, L., 1998, Dynamics of Cretaceous to the Present Vertical Motion of Australia and the Origin of the Australian-Antarctic Discordance, Science, 279, 1499-1504.

Müller, R.D., Roest, W.R., and Royer, J.-Y., 1998 , Asymmetic seafloor spreading expresses ridge-plume interactions, Nature, 396, 455-459.

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