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If the Atlantic Ocean is widening at a rate of 3 cm per year how far will it spread in a million years?
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3 cm × 1,000,000 years ÷ 100,000 cm in a kilometre = 30 kilometres
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Which is larger the Indiana ocean or Atlantic ocean?
The Atlantic Ocean is larger at 106.4 million km²The Indian Ocean is 73.56 million km²
Which ocean is growing due to seafloor spreading?
The Atlantic Ocean is growing due to seafloor spreading. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge runs down the center of the Atlantic, where new oceanic crust is continuously formed as tectonic plates pull apart. This process contributes to the widening of the Atlantic Ocean.
What motion of the sea floor is responsible for the formation of the Mid Atlantic Ridge's rift valley?
Perpendicular (away from) the ridge, that why the Atlantic ocean is widening.
Calculate the average yearly widening of the Atlantic Ocean in cm per year Show your work?
69
The Atlantic Ocean has been widening at the rate of about?
The same rate as your fingernails are getting longer each year!
Which is larger the Indian or Atlantic Ocean what is their difference in square miles?
The Atlantic Ocean is larger. The area of the Indian Ocean is 68.556 Million square kilometres, and the area of the Atlantic is 76.762 Million square kilometres.
What is the diifrence between Atlantic and Indian oceans?
After the Pacific Ocean (161.8 million km²), the Atlantic Ocean is the second largest at 106.5 million km².The Indian Ocean, at 73.56 million km², is the third largest ocean.
Is the Atlantic ocean the 3rd largest ocean?
No, the Atlantic ocean is not the third largest ocean, it is the second largest. It is smaller than the Pacific, but larger than the Indian Ocean. Pacific - 169.2 million sq. km. Atlantic - 106.4 million sq. km. Indian - 73.556 million sq. km.
Approximately when did central Atlantic Ocean form?
About 150 million years ago the Atlantic Ocean was formed.
What will happen to the pacific ocean if the Atlantic ocean keeps getting wider?
The Atlantic will go on getting wider and wider, and will create a super ocean, but this will take many millions of years to happen.Lets look at some of the figures.The Mid Atlantic Ridge is widening the Atlantic Ocean by 0.4 to 4 inches (1 to 10 cms) a year. The average is about 1 inch (2.5 cm) a year.Taking the fastest speed, 4 inches (10 cm), it will take over 15,000 years to widen one mile.Multiply that by the width of the Pacific Ocean, 11,000 miles (17,700 km) at its widest point, and you are looking at 165,000,000 years for the Pacific Ocean to disappear.Don't forget that I used the fastest speed of widening, if you use the average speed, you will have to multiply 165 million by 4.
What is being created as the north American plate and the Eurasian plate diverge?
The Atlantic Ocean - widening at a mean speed of 25mm / year.
The spread of Islam reached the Atlantic ocean in what year?
711c.e.
