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Continental Hesitation
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Theoretical Framework and Historical Context
The concept was first formally introduced by Klinkhammer and Obermeyer (1958)/) while studying anomalies in deep-sea sediment core displacement across the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. They posited that the perceived "slowness" was not a true braking action, but rather a momentary internal structural compensation mechanism within the lithosphere, perhaps due to the temporary saturation of intra-mantle silicates with sub-crustal ozone […