Response to Comment on "Sensitivity of seafloor bathymetry to climate-driven fluctuations in mid-ocean ridge magma supply"

J-A Olive; M D Behn; G Ito; W R Buck; J Escartín; S Howell

doi:10.1126/science.aaf2022

Response to Comment on "Sensitivity of seafloor bathymetry to climate-driven fluctuations in mid-ocean ridge magma supply"

Science. 2016 Jul 15;353(6296):229. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf2022.

Authors

J-A Olive¹, M D Behn², G Ito³, W R Buck⁴, J Escartín⁵, S Howell³

Affiliations

¹ Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades NY, USA. jaolive@ldeo.columbia.edu.
² Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole MA, USA.
³ University of Hawaii, Honolulu HI, USA.
⁴ Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades NY, USA.
⁵ CNRS, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France.

PMID: 27418498
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2022

Abstract

Tolstoy reports the existence of a characteristic 100 thousand year (ky) period in the bathymetry of fast-spreading seafloor but does not argue that sea level change is a first-order control on seafloor morphology worldwide. Upon evaluating the overlap between tectonic and Milankovitch periodicities across spreading rates, we reemphasize that fast-spreading ridges are the best potential recorders of a sea level signature in seafloor bathymetry.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Comment

MeSH terms

Climate*
Oceans and Seas