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What is the type of crust formed on the ocean floor?
Oceanic crust, formed mostly of mafic rocks, or sima, is found on the ocean floor.
Ooze on the ocean floor is formed from the remains of which of these?
dead organisms
As new sea floor is formed high spots are formed what are they called?
mid-ocean ridges ... for Plato peeps
How do strips of magnetized rock on the ocean floor provide evidence of sea-floor spreading?
Strips of ocean-floor basalt record the polarity of earth's magnetic field at the time the rock formed. These strips form a pattern that is the same on both sides of the mid-ocean ridge. the pattern shows that ocean floor forms along mid-ocean ridges and then moves away from the ridge.
Which feature is formed on the ocean floor when tectonic plates are pushed together so that one plate moves under the other?
ocean trench
What is the type of crust formed on the ocean floor?
Oceanic crust, formed mostly of mafic rocks, or sima, is found on the ocean floor.
How are mineral deposits in lakes and on the ocean floor formed?
what are the aswer
Ooze on the ocean floor is formed from the remains of which of these?
dead organisms
What ocean floor feature is formed by movement of earths plate?
what other ocean floor feature is fromed by movement of earth's plates
What produces the ocean floor?
There are many things that could produced the ocean floor. Dying organisms for example are one component in the ocean floor.
How is a abyssal plain formed?
it is located at the bottom of the ocean floor most common in the pacific ocean
What other ocean floor feature is formed by movement of Earth's plates?
what other ocean floor feature is fromed by movement of earth's plates
What is formed when divergence happens on the sea floor?
Mid ocean ridges
When lava flows from fissure son the ocean floor at places where tension is causing the ocean floor to be pulled apart new?
new land is formed
An island formed by ancient rock from the ocean floor is called a?
Low islands
As new sea floor is formed high spots are formed what are they called?
mid-ocean ridges ... for Plato peeps
How were the continental drift theory formed?
the mid ocean ridge and sea floor spreading mad the ocean divide(:
