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USING the ocean floor spreading/plate tectonics theory as a starting point, examining the implications of this theory for processes taking place at mid-ocean ridge crests, and adding data collected from dredged rocks and geophysical measurements in the oceans, it is possible to build up a well controlled model of the structure of the ocean crust and the way in which it is formed.
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CANN, J. New Model for the Structure of the Ocean Crust. Nature 226, 928–930 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/226928a0
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