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What is the zones places where the seafloor is forced under continents to drift?
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∙ 13y ago
Subduction zones are where the seafloor is forced under continental plates.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 9y agoSubduction zones are places where the seafloor is forced under continental plates.
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∙ 9y agoSubduction zones are places were the seafloor is placed under continental plates.
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∙ 13y agoWhen seafloor spreading occurs, it forms a trench. THAT is where the oceanic crust is forced into the mantle.
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∙ 14y agoSubduction zone
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∙ 14y agoThis is a subduction zone.
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What does seafloor spreading have to do with the theory of continental drift?
Seafloor Spreading helped move the Continents to their current location.
Why was continental drift more widely accepted after the discovery of seafloor spreading?
so basically the theory of continental drift, no one believed it. the idea that the continents were moving was just an hypothesis made by weigner. seafloor spreading made this hypothesis make sense.
How does seafloor spearing and continental drift link together?
Seafloor-spreading is the cause of continental drift
What could wegener not satisfactorily explain about continental drift?
No
What is the theory of is an outgrowth of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift?
The problem with continental drift was no mechanism could be found by which the continents could drift through the solid rock of the ocean seafloor. In the 1950s the US Navy found the evidence of alternating polarity magnetic stripes on the ocean seafloor that were symmetrical on opposite sides of the midocean ridges. But this information was kept classified until the late 1970s. When it was declassified and made available to geophysicists it became the proof that showed the continents were not drifting as Wegener proposed, but the earth's crust was divided into plates that dragged the continents along with them as they moved.
What primary force that causes the seafloor to spread and continents to drift?
Geothermal Drift.
What does seafloor spreading have to do with the theory of continental drift?
Seafloor Spreading helped move the Continents to their current location.
How does seafloor spreading explain continental drift?
Seafloor spreading is caused by two plates moving apart. This is caused by plate tectonics. Continental drift is also caused by plate tectonics. Therefore, we can conclude that continental drift is related to seafloor spreading. When the plates move, it carries the continents with it, and thus the continents drift away from each other.
What is seafloor spreading that ''helps'' the theory of continental drift?
How seafloor spreading helps to explain the theory of continental drift is that wegener couldn't explain why and waht force caused the continents to move and so seafloor spreading helps to explain the theory of continental drift because it shows the force that made the continents move and that was te only thing that wagener needed to prove his theory of continental drift............thanks
What is a seventeen letter word for a primary force that causes the seafloor to spread and continents to drift?
thermal convection
How is seafloor spreading different continental drift?
seafloor spreading is when molten material rises and cools down and makes new seafloor, continental drift is the theory that the continents were once together and the big land mass is called Pangea.this is fake story no one believe it i got wrong
Why was continental drift more widely accepted after the discovery of seafloor spreading?
so basically the theory of continental drift, no one believed it. the idea that the continents were moving was just an hypothesis made by weigner. seafloor spreading made this hypothesis make sense.
How does seafloor spearing and continental drift link together?
Seafloor-spreading is the cause of continental drift
Which hypothesis states that continents slowly moved to their present-day positions on Earth Is it subduction or erosion or continental drift or seafloor spreading?
Subduction
How did continental drift happen?
Continental Drift happened, when the tectonic plates in the earth shifted, and pushed the lithosphere up, causing our continents to split.
The primary source that causes the seafloor to spread and continents to drift?
In the middle of the ocean is a rift where the ocean floor squeezes out lava and pushes the ocean plates apart.
What could wegener not satisfactorily explain about continental drift?
No
