Posted: Mar 21, 2017 2:37 pm
ginckgo wrote:
My point is basically: if the assertion that "another Ridge eventually started to be active thus releasing the tension elsewhere" is not tested quantitatively (multiple independent data sets, such as seafloor spreading rate history, tension/compression record, etc), then it is just barely a hypotheses, and cannot be used to dismiss my query
If the rate of seafloor spreading is steadily increasing, but a ridge get extinct, it means that seafloor spreading increased elsewhere, either by an increase in rate of an existing ridge, or the formation of a new ridge. Agree?