ISSN:
1476-4687
Source:
Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
Notes:
[Auszug] Cooling of the lithosph¨re causes the geoid height to decrease uniformly with increasing plate age, symmetrically away from the ridge crest11"13. This geoid slope is, in turn, responsible for the observed geoid offset across fracture zones because of the resulting abrupt change in plate age on the ...
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/310401a0