Spreading rates determine if the ridge is fast intermediate or slow.
Sea floor spreading occurs at a rate of about.
This idea played a pivotal role in the development of the theory of plate tectonics which revolutionized geologic thought during the last quarter of the 20th century.
Measure from the center of the spreading center to a known age point on the plate rather than from 65 ma on the eastern plate to 65 ma on the western.
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Use the above equation to calculate spreading rate.
Ranges of spreading throughout the world s oceans.
Subduction and sea floor spreading are processes that could alter the size and form of the ocean.
As upwelling of magma continues the plates continue to diverge a process known as seafloor spreading samples collected from the ocean floor show that the age of oceanic crust increases with distance from the spreading centre important evidence in favour of this process.
1cm yr to 10 cm yr.
The east pacific rise is a mid oceanic ridge a divergent tectonic plate boundary located along the floor of the pacific ocean it separates the pacific plate to the west from north to south the north american plate the rivera plate the cocos plate the nazca plate and the antarctic plate it runs south from the gulf of california in the salton sea basin in southern california to a point.
R d t or r 9 5 10 7 cm 6 5 10 7 years 1 46 cm yr.
The rate at which new oceanic lithosphere is added to each tectonic plate on either side of a mid ocean ridge is the spreading half rate and is equal to half of the spreading rate.
Due to this continuous seafloor spreading occurs and makes atlantic ocean floor to be connected to other continental crust making the ocean gets wider over the time.
Spreading rate is the rate at which an ocean basin widens due to seafloor spreading.
Seafloor spreading theory that oceanic crust forms along submarine mountain zones and spreads out laterally away from them.
Seafloor spreading occurs along mid ocean ridges large mountain ranges rising from the ocean floor.