Ages of Pacific Deep-Sea Basalts, and Spreading of the Sea Floor
- 7 June 1968
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 160 (3832) , 1106-1107
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.160.3832.1106
Abstract
Potassium-argon determinations of age from whole-rock samples of tholeiitic basalts, dredged from the crest of the East Pacific Rise and from the flanks of three seamounts at varying distances from the crest, show that the crest is younger than 1 million years and that age does not correlate with distance from the crest. Our data, however, do not necessarily oppose the general concept of spreading of the ocean floor.Keywords
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