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Angevine & Turcotte 1980
Angevine, C.L. and Turcotte, D.L. (1980). On the compensation mechanism of the Walvis ridge. Geophysical Research Letters 7: doi: 10.1029/GL007i006p00477. issn: 0094-8276.

The Walvis Ridge in the south Atlantic Ocean is correlated with the geoid anomalies obtained from the GEOS 3 satellite. It is shown that the correlation is best explained by Pratt compensation with a depth of compensation of twenty to thirty kilometers.

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