Hello,
I've been wondering if there has been any in-situ measurements of mid ocean rift rates. Such as : some locators dropped onto the ocean floor near and either side of a rift, and a method employed to discern their relative distances, repeated over years, which should show increase by a few cm per year.
I've always assumed this simple and obvious experiment would have been done and repeated many times, such that today after more than 50 years after the discovery of mid ocean rifts, there'd be a network of locators along mid ocean rifts all working to measure the rift rate. I've been searching myself for any papers on this subject but in all my time I've found none.
Perhaps I'm unskilled at finding papers. Does anyone know of this experiment or the group that manage the mid ocean rift locator network?
Thankyou
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