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What types of faults should be most common at spreading ocean ridge?
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∙ 12y ago
Mid-ocean ridges do not form straight lines but are instead offset in many places by fracture zones, or transform faults.
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What types of faults are most common along divergent plate boundaries?
Oceanic-oceanic plate divergence, such as that occurring at the mid-ocean ridges.
Compare normal faults to reverse faults?
Normal is always on the ocean border and reverse is always not in an ocean border
What provides the most evidence for the theory of plate tectonics?
Faults and volcanoes are often found at tectonic plates boundaries
New crust forms?
New crust forms at spreading zones like the Mid-Atlantic ridge in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. They occur because of ocean floor spreading.
Where are the youngest rocks in the Atlantic ocean?
At the mid-atlantic ridge, where the ocean floor is spreading.
What are 3 different types of earthquakes?
(1)mid ocean spreading ridges, (2) subduction zones, and (3) transform faults.
What types of faults are most common along divergent plate boundaries?
Oceanic-oceanic plate divergence, such as that occurring at the mid-ocean ridges.
Compare normal faults to reverse faults?
Normal is always on the ocean border and reverse is always not in an ocean border
What is the ocean spreading?
its not
Why is the Alantic Ocean spreading?
it is spreading because of the effect on it
What is a spreading center on the ocean floor?
sea floor-spreading..;)
What is shown by magnetic minerals spreading from a mid ocean ridge?
That magnetic minerals spreading from a mid-ocean ridge
What is shown by magnetic minerals spreading from mid ocean ridge?
That magnetic minerals spreading from a mid-ocean ridge
What is shown by magnetic minerals spreading from a mid-ocean ridge?
That magnetic minerals spreading from a mid-ocean ridge
What are 6 facts about a normal fault?
Normal faults have a hanging wall and footwall Normal Faults are common at mid-ocean ridges Normal Faults occur where the crust is being pulled apart at the divergent plate boudary. Sorry i only have 3 facts, but I anyone with the question
What is a deep furrow in the in the ocean floor?
Deep furrows in the ground or ocean floor are faults. San Andreas fault in California is a prime example, having displacement hundreds of kilometers long. Two kinds of faults are dip-slip faults and strike-slip faults.
Why did arthur Holmes think the sea floor was spreading?
Spreading Of ocean floor
