13 million years of seafloor spreading throughout the Red Sea Basin

Here, based on earthquake data, vertical gravity gradient data and high-resolution bathymetry, the authors show that the Red Sea is not in transition from rifting to spreading as previously proposed. They instead suggest it to be a mature ocean basin in which continuous seafloor spreading began quas...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nico Augustin, Froukje M. van der Zwan, Colin W. Devey, Bryndís Brandsdóttir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22586-2