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Does the ocean floor have features that are the same as features found on continents?
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The topography of the ocean floor?
Is a diverse as that of the continents
What evidence did exploration of the ocean floor reveal to further support Wegener's theory?
Exploration of the ocean floor supported Wagner's tectonic plate theory because of the shapes and rocks found on the ocean floor. The shapes and rocks suggested that the continents had indeed once been joined.
Continents and the ocean floor are part of earths solid rocky surface called?
crust
Why is it that ancient rocks are found on the continents and not on the ocean floor?
The entire ocean floor is recycled in roughly 160 million year cycles through the process of plate tectonics. Because continental plates do not subduct, the rock is much, much older, particularly in the continental interior.
Why are diatom shells found in ocean-floor sediments?
diatom shells settle on the ocean floor from the surface
What features are found on the ocean floor?
That it is a topgraphical and the features are a ocean floor.
How do the features of the ocean floor compare with the features of continents?
About 71% of the surface of the earth is covered by ocean. That leaves about 29% in the continents. So there is roughly 2.5 times as much ocean as continent.
Which theory explains why rocks found on the ocean floor are younger than found on continents?
Sea Floor Spreading
Which theory explains why rocks found on the ocean floor are younger than those. Found on continents?
Sea Floor Spreading
What is composed of the continents and the oceans floor?
Earth's crust is composed of the continents and the ocean floor.
What are some features of the ocean floor that provide evidence for plate tectonics?
they found fossils
The topography of the ocean floor?
Is a diverse as that of the continents
In which layer of the Earth is the ocean floor?
The crust contains the ocean floor and also the continents on Earth.
Can plated carry continents or parts of the ocean floor but not both?
Tectonic Plates can't carry both ocean floor and continents on the same plate.
What forms features on the ocean?
What causes ocean floor features to form
What continents can the ocean ecosystem be found?
Oceans are not found on continents.
What is things rest upon crustal plates?
The continents and the ocean floor rest upon the plates.
