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Science 11 September 1970:
Vol. 169. no. 3950, pp. 1077 - 1079
DOI: 10.1126/science.169.3950.1077
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Sea-Floor Spreading, Carbonate Dissolution Level, and the Nature of Horizon A

Stefan Gartner Jr. 1

1 Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Miami, Florida

Evidence from leg 2 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project suggests a constant spreading rate for the floor of the North Atlantic over the past 80 million years; a major lowering of the carbonate dissolution level during the early Pliocene; and an early to middle Eocene age for horizon A.


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