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Science 23 February 1968:
Vol. 159. no. 3817, pp. 869 - 871
DOI: 10.1126/science.159.3817.869
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Spreading of the Ocean Floor: Undeformed Sediments in the Peru-Chile Trench

David W. Scholl 1, Roland von Huene 1, and James B. Ridlon 2

1 Office of Marine Geology and Hydrology, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California 94025
2 U.S. Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California 93555

None of the expected stratigraphic and structural effects of a spreading sea floor have been imposed on the sedimentary fill of the Peru-Chile Trench. During at least the last several million years, and perhaps during much of the Cenozoic, the trench has not been affected by an oceanic crust thrusting under the continent.


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