Past and present seafloor age distributions and the temporal evolution of plate tectonic heat transport
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Article history: Variations in Earth's rates of s Received 29 September 2008 Received in revised form 2 December 2008 Accepted 2 December 2008 Available online 21 January 2009 Editor: R.D. van der Hilst
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