Assuming that the rate of sea-floor spreading was constant during the one-million-year period depicted above, what should be the approximate age of marine fossils found in undisturbed sedimentary rock immediately overlying the igneous rock at the

arrow labeled "II"? A) 10,000 years
B) 250,000 years
C) 500,000 years
D) 1,000,000 years


C

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