Divergent Plate Boundaries

Sea Floor Spreading

• Magnetic Reversals
  
• Magnetic Anomalies
  

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• Age and Thickness of Ocean Sediments
  

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Continental Rifting (figure 6.15, p 143)

• Upwarping
  

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• Rift Valley
  

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• Linear Sea
  

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• Ocean Basin
  

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Upwarping

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Rift Valley

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