You measure the magnetization in a 100 million-year-old rock from North America. The magnetic minerals you measure have an inclination that is much shallower (lower inclination) than North America has today. From this measurement you conclude:

a. that North America has moved closer to the equator in the last 100 million years.
b. that North America has moved farther from the equator in the last 100 million years.
c. that North America was uplifted 100 million years ago.
d. that North America has moved both west and south in the last 100 million years.
e. that plate tectonics is wrong and that continents don't move.


b. that North America has moved farther from the equator in the last 100 million years.

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