Nannofossils Reveal Seafloor Spreading Truth!

Nannofossils Reveal Seafloor Spreading Truth!
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Audience: Grades 5-8 and Grades 9-12

National Science Education Content Standards:
Standard D: Earth and Space Science
Standard C: Life Science

Keywords: microfossils, plate tectonics, sea-floor spreading, Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Description

See how graphical analysis of nannofossil data supports the theory of sea floor spreading.

Supplemental Resources

Plate Tectonics and Contributions from Scientific Ocean Drilling
Secrets of the Sediments
Microfossils: the ocean's storytellers Poster

Credits
Written by Jerry Cook and Virginia Jones during the School of Rock Expedition 2005.

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