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Are Spreading rates along the East Pacific Rise are relatively fast with many areas spreading more than 9 centimeters per yea?
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What is the spreading rate of the East Pacific Rise?
10cmy
Why is the Pacific Ocean basin the fastest spreading?
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Is the Pacific Rise spreading faster than the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
no
The mid-Atlantic ridge is spreading faster than the East Pacific Rise?
no
Is the Mid-Atlantic ridge is the fastest-spreading ridge on earth?
No, it is actually one of the slowest spreading ridge on Earth. The slowest ridge is the Southwest Indian ridge, while the East Pacific Rise is the fastest.
What is happening to the Pacific?
The Pacific Ocean is shrinking as the Atlanic Ocean is spreading. Subduction is occurring in the Pacific ocean and the continental plates are moving and that changes the placement of the oceans.
What will happen to the pacific ocean?
The Pacific Ocean is shrinking as the Atlanic Ocean is spreading. Subduction is occurring in the Pacific ocean and the continental plates are moving and that changes the placement of the oceans.
What kind of plate boundary separates the arctic plate and the Pacific Plate?
Divergent Plate Boundary. (Seafloor Spreading).
Why are the effects of subduction in the Pacific Plate more noticeable than the effects of seafloor spreading in the Atlantic?
Because the subduction of the Pacific Plate is very near to centres of human population at the edge of a continental plate, whereas the seafloor spreading in the Atlantic is in the middle of the ocean, far away from human habitation.
Why are the magnetic strips in the pacific ocean wider than the ones in the Atlantic ocean?
The Pacific seafloor formed at a faster spreading rate than the Atlantic seafloor.
What was the cost of the Americans of realizing the dream of spreading the pacific?
America did not spread the Pacific. The ocean was there long before America existed and it has been about the same size for millions of years.
Is the Pacific Ocean spreading?
actually no, it is getting smaller as the Atlantic ocean gets bigger due to the contininents of Africa and Europe being pushed further away from the Americas by the mid Atlantic ridge. But as you observe the official data on ocean floor age, you might come to another conclusion.
