SCIENTIFIC SPECIALTY: GEOCHRONOLOGY This map is part of "Discovering Plate Boundaries," a classroom

exercise developed by Dale S. Sawyer at Rice University (dale@rice.edu).

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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