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Sea floor spreading 2 oceanic plates coming apart
Maude Kulas
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What is a spreading center on the ocean floor?
sea floor-spreading..;)
At what boundary does sea-floor spreading occur?
Consider. In sea-floor spreading, the plates are spreading apart; in other words diverging. So sea-floor spreading occurs at a divergent boundary,
What is the difference in spreading center earthquakes and subduction zone?
Spreading center earthquakes are always shallow, subduction zone earthquakes can be very deep.Spreading center earthquakes are typically of lower magnitude than subduction zone earthquakes.
What is another name for spreading center?
divergent plate boundary
What are the spreading centers?
It is a center at the bottom of the ocean that occurs at mid-ocean ridges
What types of volcanoes are formed at spreading centers?
Volcanoes at spreading centers is referred to as spreading center volcanism. This usually takes place on mid-oceanic ridges where the plates diverge.
What is a spreading?
It is a center at the bottom of the ocean that occurs at mid-ocean ridges
What is spreading centers?
It is a center at the bottom of the ocean that occurs at mid-ocean ridges
Why was continental drift more widely accepted after the discovery of seafloor spreading?
so basically the theory of continental drift, no one believed it. the idea that the continents were moving was just an hypothesis made by weigner. seafloor spreading made this hypothesis make sense.
When new crust is made what happens to the old crust?
When new crust is made, like at a spreading center, old crust must be destroyed, like at a subduction zone, where it is brought back into the inner earth and melted and recycled through.
What is a mountainous chain of young basaltic rock at the active spreading center of an ocean?
an oceanic ridge
Why is the Earth's sea floor spreading?
some can see how its spreading because no one knows
