An Explanation for Ancient Oceanic Crust (2 of 2) (VIDEO)

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This video shows the time evolution of surface viscosity and velocity arrows for the case with six continents. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the April 20, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Nicolas Coltice at Université Lyon 1 in Lyon, France, and colleagues was titled, "Dynamic Causes of the Relation Between Area and Age of the Ocean Floor."

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