Terms in this set 31 till and striations.
Seafloor spreading was a key discovery because it showed.
The discovery of the code of hammurabi was valuable because it extended the date of common laws back almost 1 000 more years.
The area was once covered with swamps jungles.
Plant fossils showed cold areas used to be tropical.
The mid atlantic ridge for instance separates the north american plate from the eurasian plate and the south american plate from the african plate the east pacific rise is a mid ocean ridge that runs through the eastern pacific ocean and separates the pacific plate from the north american.
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.
Spreading rates determine if the ridge is fast intermediate or slow.
That mid ocean ridges have rifts at the center.
Seafloor spreading occurs along mid ocean ridges large mountain ranges rising from the ocean floor.
Spreading rate is the rate at which an ocean basin widens due to seafloor spreading.
It showed that civilization was much more advanced then thought.
Subduction and sea floor spreading are processes that could alter the size and form of the ocean.
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.
Sea floor spreading was a key discovery because it showed.
What layer of earths mantle do tectonic plates ride on.
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.
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.
But the discovery of seafloor spreading disproved a part of wegener s theory because it wasn t just the continents that were moving through static oceans as he had originally thought but rather entire tectonic plates consisting of the continents ocean floors and parts of the upper mantle.
What kind of fossil evidence supported wegners hypothesis.
What was the importance of the discovery that molten rock was coming out of the cracks.
The discovery of seafloor spreading finally provided a mechanism for.
Seafloor spreading theory that oceanic crust forms along submarine mountain zones and spreads out laterally away from them.
Why was sea floor spreading a key discovery.
