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A theoretical model of the formation of magnetic striping. New oceanic crust forming continuously at the crest of the mid-ocean ridge cools and becomes increasingly older as it moves away from the ridge crest with seafloor spreading:

a. the spreading ridge about 5 million years ago.
b. about 2 to 3 million years ago.
c. present-day.

/!\ caution: the colours used on this picture may suggest that great amounts of magma are coming from beneath the lithosphere. That is not the case: only a small amount of magma is produced (red dots below the ridge crest). The orange part is Asthenosphere.

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current	13:09, 24 February 2006		255 × 187 (15 KB)	Kurgus	A theoretical model of the formation of magnetic striping. New oceanic crust forming continuously at the crest of the mid-ocean ridge cools and becomes increasingly older as it moves away from the ridge crest with seafloor spreading: * a. the spreadi