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Where would you expect to find oldest rock on 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.
Where can you find the youngest rocks on the ocean floor?
you can find the youngest rocks on the top of the ocean floor.
Explain how drilling samples provided evidence for sea floor spreading?
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.
What layer of the rainforest would you find fungus and mosses?
On the forest floor/ the shrub layer.
Where can you find the oldest fossils in sedimentary rock layers?
It would be found in the lower layers, rather that younger fossils which are found in the upper layers. ♥
Where would you expect to find the oldest on 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.
Where would you expect to find oldest rock on 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.
Where would you expect to find the oldest rock on the oldest 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.
What happens when the plate motions compresses part the crust?
where do you expect to find the oldest rock on the ocean floor
Where would you find an estuary?
=on the ocean floor=
What feature on the ocean floor would you most likely find the oldest seafloor?
in a subduction trench, because of Harry Hess' theory of sea floor spreading. Meaning that the rock is formed new at the mid-ocean ridge, and moved out towards the coasts into a subduction zone years and years later.
Where can you find the youngest rocks on the ocean floor?
you can find the youngest rocks on the top of the ocean floor.
Where in relation to a mid ocean ridge would you find the oldest oceanic lithosphere?
the bottom
What regions would you expect to find the largest amounts of dissolved oxygen in the ocean floor?
in the deep oceon floor
Where would you expect to find the oldest rock on the sea floor?
At the greatest distance from a mid oceanic spreading centre.
What will you find on the ocean floor?
sand,rocks
What kinds of rocks are in the ocean?
The ocean floor is mainly basalt. Closer to the poles you would occassionally find a glacial erratic, dropped from a melting iceberg.
