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Re: paleonet Systematics surprisingly interesting Pt.II



>--- "Dr. David Campbell" <amblema@bama.ua.edu> wrote:
>
>>  ...The lack of seafloor over ca. 200
>>  million (except where it's squashed up with other
>rocks,
>>  showing evidence of past convergence and not
>>  just divergence) ...
>
>Oh - so there is some.

Ophiolites, I think they are called.  Found mashed into continental 
rocks at extinct convergence/suture zones.

Bill
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