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How do the rocks at Lake Mead support the theory of plate tectonics?

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the theory of plate tectonics states that the crust of earth is divided into plates which are slowly moving

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One of the key pieces of evidence supporting plate tectonic theory was the discovery that rocks on the seafloor record ancient reversals of the Earth's magnetic field: as rocks are formed where plates are moving away from one another, they record the current direction of the Earth's magnetic field
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