Investigations of an exposed slice of oceanic crust and mantle have provided a dramatic picture of temporal variation in the activity of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge — including its pulse rate of 3–4 million years.
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Asimow, P. A slice of history. Nature 423, 491–492 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/423491a
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