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Science 26 September 1969:
Vol. 165. no. 3900, pp. 1357 - 1360
DOI: 10.1126/science.165.3900.1357
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Red Sea Floor Origin: Rare-Earth Evidence

Jean-Guy Schilling 1

1 Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston 02881

Abundance patterns of rare earths of submarine tholeiitic basalts from the axial trough of the Red Sea resemble those of basalts from mid-ocean ridges but are distinct from shield or plateau basalts of tholeiitic composition. These results imply that à similar magmatic process, related to spreading of sea floors, operates beneath the axial trough of the Red Sea and the crest of mid-ocean ridges.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Volcanic islands of the Red Sea.
I. G. GASS, D. I. J. MALLICK, and K. G. COX (1973)
Journal of the Geological Society 129, 275-309
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