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What might cause an individual magnetic strip of ocean floor crust to vary in width?

April 26, 2017cause earth Geology individual MAGNETIC Mathematics ocean sciences Strip

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What might cause an individual magnetic strip of ocean floor crust to vary in width?

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The earth’s magnetic field flips now and then. When it does, it flips for the whole planet. So if the stripes of orientation on the ocen floor vary in width, it is because some parts were spreading (creating new floor) faster than other parts.