The Atlantic Ocean is expanding due to mid-atlantic ridge.
The Pacific Ocean is shrinking while the Atlantic Ocean is expanding. Which type of plate boundary must be involved in each location?
No, it is actually shrinking. The Atlantic Ocean is expanding, because the North American plate and the Eurasian plate are moving away from each other.
Because the tectonic plates which it sits upon are moving apart at the mid-atlantic ridge.
The Atlantic Ocean is expanding. Plate tectonics are driving the eastern New World and the western Old World farther apart.
There is a rift down the center that pushes the ocean floor outward, expanding the ocean continuously. The rift is life a long volcano spewing out lava.
geologically speaking,an ocean has a rift system which works on expanding the ocean floor, while a sea has no rift system,the size is constant. the red sea can be considered an expanding ocean,yet it is called a sea because of its small size compared with the Atlantic ocean which has an expanding mid ocean rift system that runs north to south and surfaces in iceland.
The state of Maine is on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic ocean
the ocean that massachusetts borders is the atlantic ocean.
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean borders Georgia