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What causes magnetic stripes to form?

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The striped magnetic pattern develops because, as oceanic crust pulls apart, magma rises to the surface at mid-ocean ridges and spills out to create new bands of ocean floor. Later, after the planet’s magnetic field flips again, the next stripe of new ocean floor aligns its polarity.

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