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The Atlantic ocean is growing by a few cm each year. Explain this phenomenon using plate tectonic theory?
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∙ 12y ago
That is because the plates are shifting, they moving away from each other causing the Atlantic Ocean to grow wider.
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What is happening to the size of the south Atlantic ocean?
the Atlantic is growing in size because the tectonic plates are divergent, meaning they are separating.
How does the Mid Atlantic Ridge affect the Atlantic Ocean?
The tectonic plates are separating and growing more ocean floor (seafloor spreading).
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.
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What is happening to the size of the south Atlantic ocean?
the Atlantic is growing in size because the tectonic plates are divergent, meaning they are separating.
How does the Mid Atlantic Ridge affect the Atlantic Ocean?
The tectonic plates are separating and growing more ocean floor (seafloor spreading).
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.
How is the Atlantic Ocean growing but not getting bigger?
The Atlantic Ocean is growing so it has to be getting bigger.
What is the north Atlantic ridge?
The Mid-Atlantic Range is an underwater mountain range of the Atlantic Ocean and Artic Ocean. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is part of the global mid-oceanic ridge system; the ridge is the mountain range where tectonic plates are moving apart along a boundary as magma rises from the Earth's mantel. This magma then heats up and the heat cause the curst on the rifts expand creating the ridges. As the tectonic plates keep moving apart, the Atlantic ridge keeps growing at this point at the rate of 5-10centimeters per year. It's the Nothern third of the Mid-Atlantic ridge Plankey1995 JF
Is the Atlantic Ocean growing or shrinking?
The Atlantic is getting bigger as the Eurasian and American plates move further away from each other. The Pacific is getting smaller which can be seen most easily in San Francisco where the large amount of earthquakes are due to the pacific plate being pushed underneath the American plate.
Is the Pacific Ocean getting smaller?
yes because the Atlantic ocean is growing and pushing the Atlantic ocean aside
How many ships are in US Navy PAcific Fleet?
There's no way to explain how large it was. It kept growing and alternating between the Pacific and the Atlantic.
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Climate
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because it is growing
Can the ocean shrink?
Yes, the Pacific Ocean is shrinking and the Atlantic Ocean is growing.
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