Age of the Floor of the Eastern Indian Ocean
- 1 June 1973
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 180 (4089) , 952-954
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.180.4089.952
Abstract
Deep sea drilling in the eastern Indian Ocean shows that the oceanic crust off Western Australia is approximately 140 million years old and becomes younger to the west; this dates the initial opening of the Indian Ocean.Keywords
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