Image: East Pacific Rise seafloor magnetic profile - observed vs calculated
Description: A comparison of the observed magnetic profile for the seafloor across the East Pacific Rise against a profile calculated from the Earth's known magnetic reversals, assuming a constant rate of spreading. Original caption: "An observed magnetic profile (blue) for the ocean floor across the East Pacific Rise is matched quite well by a calculated profile (red) based on the Earth's magnetic reversals for the past 4 million years and an assumed constant rate of movement of ocean floor away from a hypothetical spreading center (bottom). The remarkable similarity of these two profiles provided one of the clinching arguments in support of the seafloor spreading hypothesis."
Title: East Pacific Rise seafloor magnetic profile - observed vs calculated
Credit: Web page, image. From This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics (online edition), by W. Jacquelyne Kious and Robert I. Tilling.
Author: W. Jacquelyne Kious and Robert I. Tilling
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