title: Response to Comment on "Sensitivity of seafloor bathymetry to climate-driven fluctuations in mid-ocean ridge magma supply".
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades NY, USA. jaolive@ldeo.columbia.edu.
authors.forename: J-A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Olive
authors.affiliation: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole MA, USA.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Behn
authors.affiliation: University of Hawaii, Honolulu HI, USA.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.affiliation: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades NY, USA.
authors.forename: W R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Buck
authors.affiliation: CNRS, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Escartín
authors.affiliation: University of Hawaii, Honolulu HI, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Howell
mesh_terms: D002980:Climate; D009792:Oceans and Seas