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How Pangaea Became 7 Separate Continents
There were other clues as well; matching rocks ... magnetic striping. The oceanic map and the magnetic striping were ...
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This is what it sounds like when the Earth's poles flip
Though they occur on average about every 450,000 years, there's no pattern ... the rock solidified. The history of Earth's magnetic reversals is recorded where new magma cools as the seafloor ...
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Magnetic bands provide evidence of sea-floor spreading
They realized that the pattern of reversals matched perfectly the magnetic profile they had compiled of the sea floor. This discovery, together with data from a 1964 research vessel, transformed ...