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What has steep narrow sides and a flat floor?
A rift valley has steep narrow sides and a flat floor. A rift valley forms where the Earth's crust is spreading or splitting apart.
How is call the Regions where the continents or the sea floor are pulling apart?
The sea floor is spreading because of two tectonic plates are moving apart. The technical name for this area is a divergent boundary. In this area rifts are created, and some may apply this term to what is the divergent boundary. A link is provided to the relevant Wikipedia article.
What is the axial rift?
A deep axial rift is a valley occurring at slow spreading mid-ocean ridges. The edges of such rifts are very rugged, and causing a good portion of the ocean floor to be covered in rough abyssal hills.
What motion of the sea floor is responsible for the formation of the Mid Atlantic Ridge's rift valley?
Perpendicular (away from) the ridge, that why the Atlantic ocean is widening.
A rift valley forms at a spreading boundary which is?
diverg
What motion of the sea floor is responsible for the formation of the mid Atlantic ridges rift valley?
According to scientists, the process associated with seafloor spreading is responsible for the formation of the mid Atlantic ridges rift valley.
What has steep narrow sides and a flat floor?
A rift valley has steep narrow sides and a flat floor. A rift valley forms where the Earth's crust is spreading or splitting apart.
What feature is not associated with subduction zones?
Rift valleys, sea-floor spreading and mid-ocean ridge.
Is seafloor spreading in the rift valley or along outsides of ridge?
rift valley
How is call the Regions where the continents or the sea floor are pulling apart?
The sea floor is spreading because of two tectonic plates are moving apart. The technical name for this area is a divergent boundary. In this area rifts are created, and some may apply this term to what is the divergent boundary. A link is provided to the relevant Wikipedia article.
What do you call the deep valley where two plates move apart?
This is known as a rift valley. it forms at a divergent boundary.
Why do Lakes form on the floor of rift valleys?
lakes form on the floor of a rift valley
Why do lakes form on the floor of a rift valley?
lakes form on the floor of a rift valley
What is the axial rift?
A deep axial rift is a valley occurring at slow spreading mid-ocean ridges. The edges of such rifts are very rugged, and causing a good portion of the ocean floor to be covered in rough abyssal hills.
What motion of the sea floor is responsible for the formation of the Mid Atlantic Ridge's rift valley?
Perpendicular (away from) the ridge, that why the Atlantic ocean is widening.
How is valley similar to an ocean trench?
in a way, they are both part of the process called sea floor spreading. the trench is where the ocean floor is subducted and the rift valley is where the molten material comes up and cools.
Seafloor spreading begins when?
Seafloor spreading is triggered by a rift in a continental land mass.
