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Science 1 June 1973:
Vol. 180. no. 4089, pp. 952 - 954
DOI: 10.1126/science.180.4089.952
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Age of the Floor of the Eastern Indian Ocean

James R. Heirtzler 1, John V. Veevers 2, Hans M. Bolli 3, Alan N. Carter 4, Peter J. Cook 5, Valeri A. Krasheninnikov 6, Brian K. McKnight 7, Franca Proto-Decima 8, G. W. Renz 9, Paul T. Robinson 10, Karl Rocker Jr. 11, and Paul A. Thayer 12

1 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
2 MacQuarie University, Sydney, Australia
3 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland
4 University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
5 Bureau of Mineral Resources, Canberra, Australia
6 Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Moscow
7 University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh 54901
8 University of Padua, Padua, Italy
9 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California 92037
10 University of California, Riverside 92502
11 Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, Port Hueneme, California 93041
12 University of North Carolina, Wilmington 28401

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.


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