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Molten lava leaks out along the seams between tectonic plates in the earth's crust, at the sea bottom. Because the water is cold, the lava hardens quickly into rock, causing the sea floor to spread in both directions.
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∙ 12y agoproducing new crust, destroying old crust I hope it would help someone who needs the answerr :) 하하하
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What Is the mechanism responsible for producing the new seafloor between two diverging plates?
Sea Floor spreading
What is the mechanism responisble for producing the new oceanic crust between 2 diverging plates?
Seafloor Spreading.
What did the magnetic strips prove in seafloor spreading?
They proved that the seafloor was spreading.
How to Diagram the process of seafloor spreading?
A diagram that shows how seafloor spreading works.
Which force is responsible for seafloor spreading?
Gravity in the oceanic crust is responsible for seafloor spreading.
What Is the mechanism responsible for producing the new seafloor between two diverging plates?
Sea Floor spreading
What is the mechanism responisble for producing the new oceanic crust between 2 diverging plates?
Seafloor Spreading.
What did the magnetic strips prove in seafloor spreading?
They proved that the seafloor was spreading.
How to Diagram the process of seafloor spreading?
A diagram that shows how seafloor spreading works.
Seafloor spreading begins when?
Seafloor spreading is triggered by a rift in a continental land mass.
Which force is responsible for seafloor spreading?
Gravity in the oceanic crust is responsible for seafloor spreading.
Process that forms new seafloor?
Seafloor Spreading
What does seafloor spreading have to do with the theory of continental drift?
Seafloor Spreading helped move the Continents to their current location.
What does magma have to do with seafloor spreading?
When seafloor spreading occurs, it pushes the underground magma up though the new crust, creating a sort of volcano out of the new crust. Magma is a very important part in seafloor spreading. :]
What process forms new seafloor?
Seafloor spreading at midoceanic ridges.
What phenomenon occurs as a result of seafloor spreading?
In 1960, seafloor spreading was hypothesized by Harry Hess of Princeton University. Seafloor spreading occurs at divergent boundaries and it is said to be the mechanism that operates along the oceanic ridge system to generate new seafloor. Thus, the result of seafloor spreading is the creation of new sea floor through the uplift of magma: magma raises from asthenosphere, new oceanic lithosphere moves from ridge, and it thickens, cools (becomes denser), and subsides.
What seafloor is the process by which new crust is created when seafloor moves apart and magma rises?
Seafloor Spreading
