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Sea Floor Spreading!
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What cause new material to form at a mid ocean ridge on the ocean floor?
New material forms on the ocean floor of the mid-ocean ridge due to plate tectonics and volcanic activity. Volcanic eruptions deposit cooled magma on the ocean floor.
What causes material to form at a mid-ocean ridge on the ocean floor?
New material forms on the ocean floor of the mid-ocean ridge due to plate tectonics and volcanic activity. Volcanic eruptions deposit cooled magma on the ocean floor.
Hardens to form new rock at mid-ocean ridges?
Sea- Floor Spreading molten material erupts through the valley that runs along the center of some mid-ocean ridges. This material hardens to form the rock of the ocean floor. Mid-ocean ridges an undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced.
What is the process that creates new ocean crust to form molten rock?
Sea Floor Spreading
Location in ocean basin where new ocean floor is formed?
This sounds like the mid ocean ridge. This is where the plates are moving apart and magma wells up to form new rock.
Plate boundry form new ocean floor?
divergant plate boundaries (the most famous being the mid ocean ridge)create new ocean flooors this is called sea spreading
When lava flows from fissures on the ocean floor at places where tension is causing the ocean floor to be pulled apart new is?
Ocean floor
What type of boundary occurs in the new ocean floor?
New ocean floor is created at mic-ocean ridges which are divergent plate boundaries.
The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are located?
The youngest part of the ocean floor is found at conservative plate boundaries where oceanic crust is pulled apart and magma rises from the mantle to form new oceanic crust.
What forms features on the ocean?
What causes ocean floor features to form
How do volcanos form along ocean ridges?
Along rift valleys, lava pours out of cracks in the ocean floor, gradually building new mountains.
In the process of sea-floor spreading how does the ocean floor become wider?
New floor forms and spreads from mid-ocean ridges
