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When did the Seychelles leave India?

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INTENSIVE study of the ocean floor in the past 10 years has enabled the concept of sea-floor spreading to be examined critically, particularly by means of analysis of the magnetic field arising from the intrusion of basic rocks on ridges in the presence of regular reversals of the Earth's magnetic field1–3. Recently the work of Wilson4, McKenzie and Parker5 and Morgan6 has put on a firmer basis the geometrical aspects of rifting and faulting of plates (perhaps 100 km thick) on a sphere, and Le Pichon7 has attempted to reconstruct the Earth's surface at periods in the geological past from magnetic anomaly studies and large scale topographic features.

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DAVIES, D. When did the Seychelles leave India?. Nature 220, 1225–1226 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2201225a0

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