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Figure F72. Schematic model of unroofing and exposure of the Atlantis Bank along a low-angle detachment fault ~11.5 m.y. ago at the northern RTI of the Atlantis II Transform. Unroofing causes cooling of the gabbroic massif below the magnetic acquisition temperatures and subsequent clockwise rotation and steepening of the frozen-in magnetic inclination by ~19º-20º.

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