= John G. Sclater
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<John G. Sclater> coauthored work linking ocean-floor depth and <heat flux> to the age of <oceanic lithosphere>. With <Barry Parsons>, he compared cooling models against both types of observation.<An analysis of the variation of ocean floor bathymetry and heat flow with age by Barry Parsons and John G. Sclater>[Abstract: cooling/plate models tested with depth and heat flow]{ref}
Cooling changes both the thermal gradient that drives heat loss and the <mass density> structure that affects subsidence. Their joint use constrains the thermal evolution more strongly than either observation alone.
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