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If the distance between the city of Charleston, South Carolina, in the eastern United States and Morocco in northwestern Africa is about 6, 700 km, how long did it take the Southern Atlantic Ocean to open if the average rate of spreading has been 2.85 cm/yr using equation 2.1 from section 2.2?
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