SCIENTIFIC SPECIALTY: GEOCHRONOLOGY
This map is part of "Discovering Plate Boundaries," a classroom
exercise developed by Dale S. Sawyer at Rice University ([email protected]).
Seafloor age in millions of years
Additional information about this exercise can be found at
This map is from Dietmar Mueller, Univ. of Sydney
http://terra.rice.edu/plateboundary .
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