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    Uplift of the shores of the western Mediterranean due to Messinian desiccation and flexural isostasy

    During the Messinian Stage (5.5 Myr, Miocene/Pliocene boundary) the 4.2×1023 m3 of water that now fills the Mediterranean evaporated. Evidence for this includes palaeogorges 1 km below the present Nile and Rhone ...

    Sonya E. Norman, Clement G. Chase in Nature (1986)

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    Miocene spreading centre south of Isla Guadalupe

    The Juan de Fuca, Rivera, Cocos and Nazca plates in the eastern Pacific are small fragments remaining from the fragmentation and partial subduction of the long, narrow Farallon Plate which began as early as 55...

    Rodey Batiza, Clement G. Chase in Nature (1981)

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    Subduction, the geoid, and lower mantle convection

    Geoid models show that net uncompensated masses in subducting lithosphere are less than thermal models predict, and do not require elevation of mantle phase changes in the slabs. The largest deviations from hy...

    Clement G. Chase in Nature (1979)