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

Olive et al. (Reports, 16 October 2015, p. 310) argue that similar to 10% fluctuations in melt supply do not produce appreciable changes in ocean ridge bathymetry on time scales less than 100,000 years and thus cannot reflect sea level forcing. Spectral analysis of bathymetry in a region they highlight as being fault controlled, however, shows strong evidence for a signal from sea level variation.