American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science, 6296(353), p. 229-229, 2016
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science, 6292(352), p. 1405-1405, 2016
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Tolstoy reports the existence of a characteristic 100 thousand year (ky) period in the bathymetry of fast-spreading seafloor but does not argue that sea level change is a first-order control on seafloor morphology worldwide. Upon evaluating the overlap between tectonic and Milankovitch periodicities across spreading rates, we reemphasize that fast-spreading ridges are the best potential recorders of a sea level signature in seafloor bathymetry.