answersLogoWhite

0

How is continental drift supported by sea floor spreading?

Updated: 8/18/2019
User Avatar

Wiki User

13y ago

Want this question answered?

Be notified when an answer is posted

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: How is continental drift supported by sea floor spreading?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

Why does continental drift occur?

because of sea-floor spreading


What is the key to understanding continental drift?

sea floor spreading


What do scientist think caused Continental drift?

Sea-floor spreading


What theory combined sea floor spreading and continental drift?

Plate Tectonics


What is another name for the Continental Drift theory?

the theory of sea floor spreading


What 2 discoveries supported hess's hypothesis?

well i am in middle school so this answer might not be right but this is my answer hope it will be useful. i think it was his continental drift and the sea-floor spreading.


What does sea-floor spreading have to do with the continental drift theory?

If you move the continents appart (or togther), then you need to create (or destroy) seal floor to do this.Thus there must be structures on the sea floor that relate to the process of continental drift/movement (and there are).


The ways that fossils helped support the hypothesis of continental drift?

Because of sea floor spreading


What theories were combined to form the theory of plate tectonics?

the continental drift and the ocean-floor spreading


Differentiate the continental drift plate tectonics sun floor spreading?

DAVID NHIEU IS HOT.


Who had the sea floor spreading theory?

Harry Hess came up with the theory of seafloor spreading . Alfred Wegener came up with the idea of continental drift NOT sea-floor spreading.


Who had the theory of sea floor spreading?

Harry Hess came up with the theory of seafloor spreading . Alfred Wegener came up with the idea of continental drift NOT sea-floor spreading.