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Contents of Magnetic Record of Seafloors

cross sections to show time periods and magetization reversal.

Fig 12.13

The magnetic record of seafloors:

The normal and reversed fields are recorded as a set of "stripes" on either side of the divergent boundary. Thus, the time periods of magnetic intervals is recorded in rock—younger in the center of ocean basins, and growing older towards the outside.