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Two Stage Red Sea Floor Spreading

Authors :
Peter Styles
R. W. Girdler
Source :
Nature. 247:7-11
Publication Year :
1974
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1974.

Abstract

Evidence is presented which strongly suggests that most of the southern Red Sea is underlain by oceanic crust which evolved in two stages, the first from about 41 to 34 million years ago and the second from about 4 to 5 million years ago to the present day.

Details

ISSN :
14764687 and 00280836
Volume :
247
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Nature
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........348ba2150b4c3d567f6a733d007211e1
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1038/247007a0