Because of sea-floor spreading caused by the mid-ridge
Rocks have a north and south pole. The sea floor was discovered to have different magnetic poles on cracks in the ocean floor.
The Pacific Ocean is not expanding in the traditional sense. However, tectonic plates beneath the ocean are constantly moving, which can lead to the ocean floor spreading in some areas due to seafloor spreading along mid-ocean ridges.
geologically speaking,an ocean has a rift system which works on expanding the ocean floor, while a sea has no rift system,the size is constant. the red sea can be considered an expanding ocean,yet it is called a sea because of its small size compared with the Atlantic ocean which has an expanding mid ocean rift system that runs north to south and surfaces in iceland.
There is a rift down the center that pushes the ocean floor outward, expanding the ocean continuously. The rift is life a long volcano spewing out lava.
which landforms are on the ocean floor
The topography of the ocean floor
The ocean floor is not smooth.The ocean floor is made up of rocks, ledges and ditches.
blank are found on the ocean floor
marine organisms
Ocean floor
That it is a topgraphical and the features are a ocean floor.
No. The newest ocean floor is at the mid-ocean ridge.