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Figure F3. A. Hand-contoured 100-m-contour bathymetric map of Site 735 showing the location of Hole 735B, modified from Dick et al. (1991c). SeaBeam tracks were visually aligned to eliminate conflicts in transit satellite navigated data. The contour interval is 250 m. Small solid dots and arrows indicate the starting point and approximate track of dredge hauls. Large solid dots show the location of Sites 735 and 732 (just north of the contoured area on the crest of the median tectonic ridge). Solid circles indicate the approximate proportions of rock types recovered in each dredge: + = gabbro, white = basalt and diabase, light stipples = greenstone, and heavy stipples = serpen-tinized peridotite. B. Hand-contoured bathymetric map of the eastern rift mountains north of the Southwest Indian Ridge axis showing crust of the same age as that at Site 735 and the conjugate position of Hole 735B (735B') on the counter-lithospheric flow line, based on magnetic anomalies and plate reconstruction. This conjugate site is the location of Southwest Indian Ridge 6, the proposed backup site for Leg 176, where the volcanic carapace originally overlying Hole 735B is preserved intact.

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