@article{2037d8d34936437e89479398055f11de,
title = "Age of the floor of the Eastern Indian Ocean",
abstract = "Deep sea drilling in the eastern Indian Ocean shows that the oceanic crust off Western Australia is approximately 140 million years old and becomes younger to the west; this dates the initial opening of the Indian Ocean.",
author = "Heirtzler, {James R.} and Veevers, {John V.} and Bolli, {Hans M.} and Carter, {Alan N.} and Cook, {Peter J.} and Krasheninnikov, {Valeri A.} and Mcknight, {Brian K.} and Franca Proto-Decima and Renz, {G. W.} and Robinson, {Paul T.} and Karl Rocker and Thayer, {Paul A.}",
year = "1973",
language = "English",
volume = "180",
pages = "952--954",
journal = "Science",
issn = "0036-8075",
publisher = "American Association for the Advancement of Science",
number = "4089",
}