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What generalization can you make about the ages of rocks that are close to the mid Atlantic ridge?
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Where are the youngest rocks in the Atlantic ocean?
At the mid-atlantic ridge, where the ocean floor is spreading.
If you could collect a sample of rock from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge where would you look to find the youngest rocks?
You would be looking at the solidified magma closest to the fault between the ridges.
How are the rocks organized on the mid-Atlantic ridge?
They are arranged in a pattern with magnetic strips having reversed polarities.
How old are the rocks of the Atlantic sea floor?
The rocks off of the east coast of North America are much older than those right along the mid-Atlantic ridge because sea-floor spreading is occurring where oceanic plates are diverging from one another. The rocks right along the ridge are the newest ones being formed, and the ones off the east coast of North America were formed a long time ago.
What are the rocks close to a mid ocean ridge younger than the ones that are farther away?
no
What is the relationship between the age of rocks on the ocean floor and the distance from the Mid-Atlantic ridge?
The farther away the rocks are, the older they are. When the lava bubbles up from the ridge, the tectonic plates move outward. As the process repeates itself and new lava comes up, the rocks are pushed farther and father away. As a result, the closest rocks are the newest, and the farthest rocks are the oldest!
Which statement provides evidence that the seafloor is spreading out from both sides of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
parrell strips of igneous rocks on each side of the ridge show matching reversal of magnetic polity
How old are the rocks off the east coast of north America relative to the rocks right along the nid Atlantic ridge why do you this is the case?
they are much older than the mid atlantic rocks beacuse the rock works its way out and up the older it gets i might be rong so id double check
How does evidence that rocks farther from a ridge are older than rocks closer to the ridge support the idea of sea floor spreading?
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Why are oceans far away form a ridge?
cuz rocks come up from the ridge and create land by the ridge
What rocks are formed under water?
Sedimentary Rocks Don't forget pillow lavas, and water-chilled lavas. Mid-ocean ridge rocks are surely worth a mention. And flow silicates such as the 'Pink and White terraces' and similar elsewhere in the world.
What evidence in rocks supports the theory of seas-flooring spreading?
1.) The age of the rocks- the oldest ones are found further away from the original mid-atlantic ridge. 2.) Magnetic clues. The rocks with iron in them have shown that the Earth's magnetic field has reversed itself several times. It is imprinted in the rock.
