The oldest rocks are found on land.
The oldest rocks on the ocean floor would be those at the colliding edge of the plate boundary.Answer 2: The oldest of all oceanic rocks are on the Asian side of the pacific plate.
The oldest rock on the ocean floor can be found in the central parts of the ocean basins, particularly in regions known as abyssal plains. These rocks are generally around 200 million years old or older.
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.
The oldest sediments are generally younger than the oldest continental rocks. Sediments are continuously being deposited on the Earth's surface, while continental rocks have undergone processes of solidification and deformation over billions of years. This means that the oldest continental rocks are usually much older than the oldest sediments.
The largest contributor to the salt ions in the ocean is the weathering of rocks on land, which releases minerals containing salt into rivers that eventually flow into the ocean.
The oldest rocks are actually on land but in the ocean crust they would be the rocks closest to land. The mid-ocean ridge forms new rocks. They are usually located in the middle of the ocean.
The oldest rocks on the ocean floor would be those at the colliding edge of the plate boundary.Answer 2: The oldest of all oceanic rocks are on the Asian side of the pacific plate.
No, rocks are not alive. Rocks are not alive in the ocean or sea or on land
The oldest rocks on the continents would be much older than the rocks on the sea floor because the rocks on the continents are not being removed unlike the rocks on the sea floor that are made by the mid-ocean ridge are being removed by deep ocean trenches. this prossess that is occuring on the sea floor is called sea floor spreading. evidence of this is the Pacific ocean shrinking and the Atlantic ocean growing.
Less than 200 Million years old.
Nope. The oldest rocks are located on continents, usually away from the ocean. The mid-ocean ridges are, in fact, home of some of the youngest rocks. The reason for this is what is called sea-floor spreading. Mid-ocean ridges form at places where oceanic plates diverge, or move apart. As this happens, magma rises from within the Earth to fill the gap. The magma cools and solidifies, creating new seafloor. This process continues as the plates continue to spread apart.
The oldest rock on the ocean floor can be found in the central parts of the ocean basins, particularly in regions known as abyssal plains. These rocks are generally around 200 million years old or older.
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.
oldest at the bottom youngest on top. Its the law of superposition. They also found that the age of rocks increases with increased distance from mid-ocean-ridges.
England itself! The oldest things in England are the rocks that make up England's land mass- these date back hundreds of millions of years, to when land first began to form. In ANY nation of the world, these will be the oldest things to be found in that country.
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.