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Widening the goal-posts

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Oceanic crust forms through the addition of volcanic rock to mid-ocean ridges. Widely dispersed, young lavas observed at an ultraslow-spreading ridge provide impetus for the redevelopment of models of oceanic magmatism.

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Figure 1: Schematic models of magmatism at spreading ridges.

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  1. John Maclennan is at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, UK. jcm1004@cam.ac.uk,

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Maclennan, J. Widening the goal-posts. Nature Geosci 3, 229–230 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo833

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