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Young, because it is being continually formed as the adjoining tectonic plates move apart.
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Where is ocean floor created?
The ocean floor is made of relatively young basaltic rock which is pushed up as magma at the mid-oceanic ridges, the place where the sea floor spreads apart.
Where are the youngest rocks on the ocean floor typically found?
fault line
Summarize the evidence that supports wegner's hypothesis?
The evidence that supports Wegner's hypothesis is that in 1947 , a group of scientisits noticed two things about the Mid- Atlantic Ridge. The first thing that the scientists noticed was the sediment that covers the sea floor is thinner and younger closer to a ridge than it is farther from a ridge. Second, scientists learned that the ocean floor is very young. Radiometric dating shows that the sea floor closer to the mid-ocean ridge are younger, than the ones farther.
How do rocks along the central valley of the mid ocean ridge provide evidence of sea floor spreading?
Over a long period of time things can move suck as ROCK can move in the ocean from high and low tides, pressure, and waves only up to 3 ft....
What is the young ocean floor?
The Young Ocean Floor is the part of the mantle showing between the 2 split tectonic plates.
How does the ocean floor and the center slit differ on the side slit?
By center slit I assume that you mean a mid ocean ridge which is a divergent boundary and the sea floor is very young there. Then be side slit I am assuming that you mean a trench which is a convergent boundary or subduction zone which would be the oldest part of the sea floor.
Is the Rock found at mid ocean ridge old or young?
yes young rocks are found at mid ocean ridges not old rocks.
Why are the Rock's close to a mid-ocean ridge younger than the ones that are farther away?
Mid-ocean ridges are basically underground volcanoes that lava from the Earth's Mantle can breach. The ocean, however, freezes the lava and that in turn forms rock. If this happens repeatedly, then the older rock gets pushed away from the source, and the younger, just formed rock is, therefore, closer to the ridge. So the younger rock being formed by the ridge is pushing away the older, previously made, igneous rock.
What is a mountainous chain of young basaltic rock at the active spreading center of an ocean?
an oceanic ridge
What is an earthquake zone likely to be?
young mountains along an ocean coast.
An earthquake zone is likely to be on what?
young mountains along an ocean coast.
Why continental rock is younger than oceanic rock?
The Oceanic Plates are younger than the continental because they are "recycled"; think of the oceanic ridges, such as the mid Atlantic oceanic ridge, that is where a hot spot under diverging plates (plates moving apart) push magma up, causing new young ocean floor to spread from this spot, and pushing the old floor into trenches and other continents, being destroyed. Another point to remember is that the ocean crust is thicker the farther away from the ridge; this is because it has had more time to build itself up compared to the more thin young crust.
