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Digital ACT Science Practice Question #1513

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Oceanographers mapped alternating normal and reversed magnetic stripes across the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: - The magnetic anomaly pattern on the west side of the ridge mirror-images the pattern on the east side. - Basalt age increases symmetrically with distance from the central rift axis. This symmetrical magnetic pattern provides evidence for:
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Symmetrical stripes on both sides of ridge = seafloor spreading.

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Symmetrical magnetic reversal stripes validate seafloor spreading where new magma cools and records Earth's magnetic polarity....

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