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Q: What tetonic process formed the red sea?
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How was the red sea formed?

some one had their period in a sea


How can sea mounts help us understand the movement of tectonic plates?

The sea mounts help us understand the movement of tetonic plates because when the tetonic plates move's the earth's crust making little formations of sand underwater.


How were the gulf of aden and the red sea formed?

. The Red Sea formed and is still forming because of mid-ocean edge opening. It is a plate boundary between the African and Arabian Plates. The gap runs down the long axis of the sea.


The red sea is theorized to be the site of a recently formed?

The Red Sea is theorized to be the site of a recently formed divergent boundary. A divergent boundary is a place where plates are coming apart.


What is it called when tetonic plates seporate?

It is called a divergent boundary. Another term for it is sea-floor spreading.


What is the Red Sea believed to be the site of a recently formed?

divergent boundaries


What plates formed the rift valley that the Red Sea now occupies?

African and Arabian


Is the red sea salt water?

A lake is formed by a river, is landlocked and flows out by means of a river. Asea can be marginal, a marginal sea is surrounded by land but has an escape directly to the sea and can be fed also by the sea. Example: lake of Gaililee is formed by the water from the Hermon Mount and the former turns into the Jordan river. The lake of Caspia is formed by the flow from the Danube river and flows into rivers. The Persian Gulf or the Red Sea are marginal (surrounded by land) and are fed by the Arabian sea and flow into the same.


Is halite and gypsum both formed through the process of evaporation of large bodies of sea water?

YES


Was the red seas made by a heavy flowing period?

The Red Sea was formed by an increase in sea level, probably caused by the melting of the last ice-age that had covered much of the northern hemisphere.


The red sea was formed along what boundary?

Divergent boundaries because the plates are going away from one another.


What is the sea the separates Saudi Arabia and Sudan?

the red sea