you can find the youngest rocks on the top of the ocean floor.
Somewhere at the bottom of the Marianas Trench you would find the oldest rock of the oceanic crust. Somewhere else, however, there are older rocks on the ocean floor--those deposited by icebergs that have broken off of glaciers. Those erratic rocks could be much older than the oldest oceanic crust.
Scientists discovered that the rocks that were found farther away from the ridge the sample was taken from, the older the rocks were. The most recent rocks were always in the center of the ridges. This showed that sea-floor spreading really has taken place.
Minerals are inorganic naturally occurring solids with a definite chemical composition and a crystalline structure. Rocks are composed of minerals.
Old sea floor rocks are much younger than old continental rocks! This is because the oceanic lithospheric plate forming the seafloor tends to be recycled at places known as subduction zones where it is forced below less dense (commonly continental) lithosphere. As such the oldest continental rocks tend to be 2-3 billion years old whereas oceanic crust neve tends to be more than a few hundred million years old.
Radiometric dating. They sampled the basaltic rocks of the sea floor, and analyzed their radioisotope ratios. This produces an accurate age. They also measured the paleomagnetic striping on the sea floor, and have matched sea floor rock ages to those on land. The radioisotope dates are in good agreement with the measured rates of sea floor spreading. Currently, for example, the Atlantic Ocean is opening by a few inches per year. The Pacific sea floor is spreading even faster, but it is sucked beneath the American and Asian plate margins faster yet, creating orogeny (mountain building) particularly along the western edge of the north and south American plates. In other words, the Pacific Ocean is shrinking, even though its floor spreads a bit faster. This is expected to continue for another half billion years or so, and then reverse, in what is known as the Wilson cycle.
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The ocean floor is mainly basalt. Closer to the poles you would occassionally find a glacial erratic, dropped from a melting iceberg.
Somewhere at the bottom of the Marianas Trench you would find the oldest rock of the oceanic crust. Somewhere else, however, there are older rocks on the ocean floor--those deposited by icebergs that have broken off of glaciers. Those erratic rocks could be much older than the oldest oceanic crust.
Somewhere at the bottom of the Marianas Trench you would find the oldest rock of the oceanic crust. Somewhere else, however, there are older rocks on the ocean floor--those deposited by icebergs that have broken off of glaciers. Those erratic rocks could be much older than the oldest oceanic crust.
Scientists discovered that the rocks that were found farther away from the ridge the sample was taken from, the older the rocks were. The most recent rocks were always in the center of the ridges. This showed that sea-floor spreading really has taken place.
You would be looking at the solidified magma closest to the fault between the ridges.
at the mid-ocean ridge you can find the youngest oceanic plate and a divergent boundary.
An estuary is typically found where a river meets the sea, creating a unique habitat with a mixture of fresh and saltwater. Estuaries can be located along coastlines around the world.
The youngest rocks would be igneous, those created by cooling magma. Impossible to find a fossil there.
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Somewhere at the bottom of the Marianas Trench you would find the oldest rock of the oceanic crust. Somewhere else, however, there are older rocks on the ocean floor--those deposited by icebergs that have broken off of glaciers. Those erratic rocks could be much older than the oldest oceanic crust.
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