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Palmer Ridge: a Section through the Upper Part of the Ocean Crust?

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Palmer Ridge, part of the Kings Trough feature, N.E. Atlantic, consists of metamorphic and igneous basement with a cover of Tertiary sediments uplifted and intruded by a mass of serpentinite. The basement was formed about 60 million years ago at the mid-ocean ridge crest, and the uplift of the ridge and opening of Kings Trough occurred about 27 million years ago.

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  2. Department of Geology, Downing Street, Cambridge

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CANN, J., FUNNELL, B. Palmer Ridge: a Section through the Upper Part of the Ocean Crust?. Nature 213, 661–664 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213661a0

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