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An underwater mountain chain that formed by sea-floor spreading is called a?
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∙ 12y ago
Underwater mountain chains that form where two tectonic plates are pulling apart are called mid ocean ridges. The largest is the Mid Atlantic Ridge.
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Places where the seafloor is forced under continental plates?
The region where the seafloor is forced beneath the continental plate is called a subduction zone. When the seafloor descends down it produces a deep-ocean trench.
What is it called when watery clay soil slides down a mountain?
Landslide
What do you call a prism spreading out light into colors?
It is called Visible light Spectrum.
What do you call a scientist that studies underwater life?
Oceanologist or an Oceanographer. They could also be called a Marine Biologist.
What is the force that brings nearly everything to a stop also useful for mountain climbers and baseball players?
That force is called friction.
Who discovered Seafloor Spreading?
Henry H. hess
A Rift zone Underwater volcano?
Yes, also known as seafloor spreading! A rift zone volcano is called a mid-ocean ridge. The seafloor splits & spreads apart at a mid-ocean ridge, with lava seeping out of this fissure. The lava forms new seafloor. The older seafloor moves away from the ridge. Therefore, our ocean floor is actually spreading, at a rate of about two inches per year in the Atlantic ocean, and about 13 in the Pacific.
What is seafloor spreading called?
It is part of continental drift and plate tectonics.
How does the ocean floor move?
It is called Seafloor Spreading, which comes under the Divergent Plate Movement.
What is it called when mountain are in the middle of the seafloor?
atlantis island
What is it called when two oceanic plates move apart and new crust is formed?
Seafloor Spreading
What is it called when two ocean plates move apart and new crust is formed?
Seafloor spreading
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
What is called a sea wave that is created when the seafloor slips after an underwater earthquake?
Its called a Tsunami, Japan just had one and was devastated!
What is the name of a sea wave that is made when the seafloor slips after an underwater earthquake?
Tsunami, also called Kamikazis
What is the process by which plate tectonics produces new oceanic lithosphere at ocean ridges called?
Seafloor Spreading.
Is ocean crust formed at a mid ocean ridge?
Yes, the process that creates oceanic crust on a mid-ocean ridge is called "seafloor spreading". seafloor spreading creates a new oceanic crust that forms on the mid-ocean ridge.
