The bathtub drain in the ocean.(Samplings)(Brief Article)

Publication: Natural History

Publication Date: 01-DEC-04

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Making the Earth's crust is violent business. Worldwide, along segments of seafloor called mid-ocean ridges, molten rock presses upward--breaking apart the ocean bottom, setting off earthquakes, creating jets of superheated seawater, and eventually solidifying to form new crust.

That, at least, is what geologists used to think was the...

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