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Continent and Ocean Basin Evolution by Spreading of the Sea Floor
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This article is published in Nature.The article was published on 1961-06-01. It has received 522 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Marine geology & Seafloor spreading.read more
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On the Relative Importance of the Driving Forces of Plate Motion
Donald W. Forsyth,Seiya Uyedaf +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the relative strength of the plausible driving forces, given the observed motions and geometries of the lithospheric plates, was analyzed. But the results indicate that the forces acting on the downgoing slab control the velocity of the oceanic plates and are an order of magnitude stronger than any other force.
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Seismology and the new global tectonics
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive study of the observations of seismology provides widely based strong support for the new global tectonics which is founded on the hypotheses of continental drift, sea-floor spreading, transform faults and underthrusting of the lithosphere at island arcs.
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Sea-floor spreading and continental drift
TL;DR: In this article, a geometrical model of the surface of the earth is obtained in terms of rigid blocks in relative motion with respect to each other, and a simplified but complete and consistent picture of the global pattern of surface motion is given on the basis of data on sea-floor spreading.
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Evolution of sedimentary rocks
TL;DR: In this paper, it has been shown that recycling and evolution are complementary concepts and that the observed secular variations in relative proportions of lithologic types and in chemistry of sedimentary rocks were mostly given an evolutionary interpretation.
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Drowned ancient islands of the Pacific Basin
TL;DR: In the Pacific basin between Hawaii and the Marianas, some one hundred and sixty flat-topped peaks have been discovered as discussed by the authors, and they appear to be truncated volcanic islands rising about nine to twelve thousand feet from the ocean floor.
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Thickness and consolidation of deep-sea sediments
TL;DR: In this article, the velocity of elastic compressional waves in sediments and rocks has been used to estimate the average thickness of sediment solids on the ocean floor, and it has been shown that the lower layers are composed of rocks formed by normal consolidation and lithification of the present types of deep-sea sediments.
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Deformation of the Northeastern Pacific Basin and the West Coast of North America
TL;DR: Fracture Zones as mentioned in this paper are four bands of unusually irregular topography named "fracture zones" in the northeastern Pacific basin, and three have been traced into western North America.