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Q: How do magnetic patterns in the rock along the mid-oceanic ridge explain seafloor spreading?
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What process forms new seafloor?

Seafloor spreading at midoceanic ridges.


First related the symmetrical magnetic patterns in seafloor basalts to seafloor spreading at a mid-ocean ridge?

Lawrence W. Morley, Frederick John Vine, and Drummond Hoyle Matthews were the first to tie magnetic stripe anomalies to seafloor spreading. The magnetic anomalies was the first evidence that supported the theory of seafloor spreading.


Who first related the symmetrical magnetic patterns in seafloor basalt to seafloor spreading at a mid ocean ridge?

Vine and Matthews


How are magnetic patterns in sea floor rock evidence of seafloor spreading?

Magnetic alignment of rocks, in alternating strips that run parallel to ridges, indicates reversals in Earth's magnetic field and provides further evidence of seafloor spreading.


What did the magnetic strips prove in seafloor spreading?

They proved that the seafloor was spreading.


What do magnetic anomalies provide evidence of?

seafloor spreading


How does magnetic stripes prove seafloor spreading?

ddd


Studying the magnetic patterns of the rocks in the floor of the ocean helps scientists do what?

It helps them determine the frequency of shifts in the magnetic orientation of the Earth, and initially led to the confirmation of seafloor spreading at the mid-ocean ridges.


What was the theory that was shown to be correct by age evidence and magnetic clues?

Magnetic Reversal


How does magnetic reversals provide evidence for seafloor spreading?

Because of the stripes at the sea floor which are magnetic minerals


Magnetic striping is evidence of?

pole reversals seafloor spreading


A sensing device that detects magnetic fields helping confirm seafloor spreading?

Magnetometer. :D