Response to Comment on "Sensitivity of seafloor bathymetry to climate-driven fluctuations in mid-ocean ridge magma supply".
Huybers et al present new bathymetric spectra from an intermediate-spreading ridge as evidence for a primary contribution of sea level cycles to the morphology of the seafloor. Although we acknowledge the possibility that sea level-modulated magmatic constructions may be superimposed on a first-order tectonic fabric, we emphasize the difficulty of deciphering these different contributions in the frequency domain alone.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA. jaolive@ldeo.columbia.edu.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA.
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University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA.
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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA.
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CNRS, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France.
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University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA.
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