Voir par exemple « since the mid-sixties it is well-established that mid-oceanic ridges are areas of lithosphere production, while subduction zones are areas where lithosphere is being consumed (destructive plate margin). » dans Kurt Stüwe, Geodynamics of the lithosphere, 2007, Springer, (ISBN978-3-540-71236-7), p. 16.
Egyed, L. (1956), The change of the earth’s dimensions determined from paleogeographical data, Pure and Applied Geophysics, vol. 33, p. 42-48, 1956, DOI10.1007/BF02629945
