Abstract
Evidence for subsidence of at least 2 km during crustal formation and the absence of an increase in minor intrusion density with depth in the lower 2 km are the major results of the field study of a 3-km vertical section of Icelandic crust.
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I. L. Gibson Iceland Research Drilling Project. Crust of oceanic affinity in Iceland. Nature 281, 347–351 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/281347a0
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