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SCIENCE
Volume 347, Issue 6227, Pages 1237-1240Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1261508
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- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [279925]
- U.S. National Science Foundation [1338832]
- Korea Polar Research Institute [PP13040, PE14050]
- Leverhulme Trust
- Korea Institute of Marine Science & Technology Promotion (KIMST) [PE14050] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
- European Research Council (ERC) [279925] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences [1338832] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Glacial cycles redistribute water between oceans and continents, causing pressure changes in the upper mantle, with consequences for the melting of Earth's interior. Using Plio-Pleistocene sea-level variations as a forcing function, theoretical models of mid-ocean ridge dynamics that include melt transport predict temporal variations in crustal thickness of hundreds of meters. New bathymetry from the Australian-Antarctic ridge shows statistically significant spectral energy near the Milankovitch periods of 23, 41, and 100 thousand years, which is consistent with model predictions. These results suggest that abyssal hills, one of the most common bathymetric features on Earth, record the magmatic response to changes in sea level. The models and data support a link between glacial cycles at the surface and mantle melting at depth, recorded in the bathymetric fabric of the sea floor.
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