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Where are the youngest seafloor rocks found?
The youngest seafloor rocks are found in the rift valleys of the mid ocean ridges. At the mid-oceanic ridges there is tectonic movement bringing new magma to the surface.
What states the youngest rocks of ocean floor are at a diverging boundaries moving outward?
seafloor spreading
Location of youngest seafloor rocks?
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Far where on the moon have the youngest rocks been found?
The youngest rocks found on the moon are igneous rocks. They are found on the Maria, dark, flat regions on the moon.
Where are the youngest rocks found?
usually the youngest rocks are found on the top of the earths crust
In an undeformed sequence of rocks the youngest rocks are found?
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Where are the youngest rocks found in viriginia?
south
How did Harry Hess hypothesis explain seafloor spreading?
Harry Hess hypothesized that the sea floor was spreading. He explained it through the phenomena of the youngest rocks that are found only at the mid-ocean ridges. These rocks then, get progressively older when moving away from the ridge.
How does the age of rocks in the seafloor provide evidence of seafloor spreading?
Rocks in the seafloor are moving one place to another
Where are the youngest rocks found on the seafloor?
Near fault lines, it is there that rocks are created by the rubbing or colliding of the tectonic plates. Rocks could also be made by volcanoes via the cooling of magma and lava. The closer to the fault line you are the newer the rock and the farther away you get the older the rock becomes.
Where on the moon have the youngest rocks been found?
Lunar highlands
Where is the youngest rock found in the earth's crust found?
The youngest rocks in the crust are found on and near active volcanoes, such as those at mid-ocean ridges.
