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Fracture zone topography can be accounted for by seafloor spreading and plate tectonics.
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MENARD, H., ATWATER, T. Origin of Fracture Zone Topography. Nature 222, 1037–1040 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2221037a0
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