D. What is the average rate at which the rocks at Point A have moved away from the spreading axis (over the whole life of the ocean)? Show your work and give your answer in cm/yr.

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D. What is the average rate at which the rocks Point A have moved away from the spreading axis (over the
whole life of the ocean)? Show your work and give your answer in cm/yr.
Transcribed Image Text:D. What is the average rate at which the rocks Point A have moved away from the spreading axis (over the whole life of the ocean)? Show your work and give your answer in cm/yr.
Figure 2.
Connolly, Goodricl
continent 1
+
plate 1
Divergent Plate Boundary
200 180 160 120 80 40
ocean floor (basalt)
plate 1
A
H
0
continent 2
scale (km)
+
2000
Transcribed Image Text:Figure 2. Connolly, Goodricl continent 1 + plate 1 Divergent Plate Boundary 200 180 160 120 80 40 ocean floor (basalt) plate 1 A H 0 continent 2 scale (km) + 2000
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