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    How Wide Would an Ocean Basin Be If It Formed
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How Wide Would an Ocean Basin Be If It Formed

Question 39

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How wide would an ocean basin be if it formed due to the breakup of a supercontinent 200 million years ago and had an oceanic ridge in the middle that spread at a rate of 2.5 centimeters per year (25 kilometers per million years)?

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200 Ma × (25 km/Ma)=...

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