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Delayed response to mantle pull

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At mid-ocean ridges, the directions in which plates spread and the underlying mantle flows were thought to broadly align. A synthesis of results from ridges that spread at a variety of rates reveals that instead there may be a systematic skew.

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Figure 1: An overlapping spreading centre from the East Pacific Rise (at 11° 45′ N).

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  1. Mladen R. Nedimović is in the Department of Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada,

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