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New oceanic crust is being created at the mid-ocean ridges.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 9y agoNew oceanic crust is being created at the mid-ocean ridges. this is caused by plate tectonics, which is the movement of plates at a plate boundary.
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∙ 9y agoNew oceanic crust is formed when volcanic activity disrupts the seafloor at the mid- ocean ridge. When this occurs it is referred to as oceanic spreading.
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∙ 12y agoMid Oceanic ridge
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Does seafloor spreading cause the earth's crust to expand?
New oceanic crust is being created at seafloor spreading zones, and crust is alternately being subducted and destroyed at subduction zones.
Seafloor is the process by which new crust is created when the seafloor moves apart and magma rises up?
seafloor spreading
If new seafloor is being created how does the earth stay the same size?
Because it only gets larger in one direction by getting smaller in another. In the case of ocean ridges, the 'other place' is wherever the crust has subducted into the natle at a plate boundary.
What is the process by which new crust is created when the seafloor moves apart and magma rises up?
Seafloor Spreading
What does seafloor spreading create?
New oceanic crust is created at the mid-ocean ridges.
Does seafloor spreading cause the earth's crust to expand?
New oceanic crust is being created at seafloor spreading zones, and crust is alternately being subducted and destroyed at subduction zones.
What seafloor is the process by which new crust is created when seafloor moves apart and magma rises?
Seafloor Spreading
Seafloor is the process by which new crust is created when the seafloor moves apart and magma rises up?
seafloor spreading
What is the name of places where new seafloor is created?
New oceanic crust is created at spreading centres. These may also be termed divergent or constructive plate boundaries or Mid-Ocean-Ridges.
If new seafloor is being created how does the earth stay the same size?
Because it only gets larger in one direction by getting smaller in another. In the case of ocean ridges, the 'other place' is wherever the crust has subducted into the natle at a plate boundary.
What is the process by which new crust is created when the seafloor moves apart and magma rises up?
Seafloor Spreading
What seafloor is the process by which new crust is created when the seafloor moves apart and magma rises up?
plate tectonics
What is the place that new seafloor is created?
in mid ocean ridges
Where are places where new sea floor is being created?
antartica
What does seafloor spreading create?
New oceanic crust is created at the mid-ocean ridges.
Process that forms new seafloor?
Seafloor Spreading
What process forms new seafloor?
Seafloor spreading at midoceanic ridges.
