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Tectono-eustatic Changes in Sea Level and Seafloor Spreading

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This article describes a model for estimating eustatic changes and evidence for a correlation with seafloor spreading.

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FLEMMING, N., ROBERTS, D. Tectono-eustatic Changes in Sea Level and Seafloor Spreading. Nature 243, 19–22 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/243019a0

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