Response to Comment on "Glacial cycles drive variations in the production of oceanic crust".
Goff comments that faulting is important for creation of abyssal hills and is the dominant process at slow-spreading ridges. We respond that faulting is indeed important but cannot alone explain the bathymetric signal predicted by our models and observed at the Australian-Antarctic Ridge. We show that for intermediate- to fast-spreading ridges, abyssal hill spacing is consistent with the periodicity of the obliquity cycle.
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
John W
JW
Crowley
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. richard.katz@earth.ox.ac.uk shpark314@kopri.re.kr.
Richard F
RF
Katz
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
Peter
P
Huybers
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
Charles H
CH
Langmuir
Division of Polar Earth-System Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, Korea. richard.katz@earth.ox.ac.uk shpark314@kopri.re.kr.
Sung-Hyun
SH
Park