Mid-ocean ridge (redirect from Seafloor spreading ridge) basin. This feature is where seafloor spreading takes place along a divergent plate boundary. The rate of seafloor spreading determines the morphology of... 36 KB (4,663 words) - 06:09, 17 February 2024 |
Plate tectonics (redirect from Seafloor striping) century. Plate tectonics came to be accepted by geoscientists after seafloor spreading was validated in the mid-to-late 1960s. Earth's lithosphere, the rigid... 112 KB (13,615 words) - 00:01, 6 February 2024 |
Back-arc basin (redirect from Backarc spreading) ocean basin does, indicating asymmetric seafloor spreading. This has prompted some to characterize the spreading in back-arc basins to be more diffused... 26 KB (2,984 words) - 06:12, 29 December 2023 |
Orogeny (section Seafloor spreading) marginal crust of the two continents. As the two continents rift apart, seafloor spreading commences along the axis of a new ocean basin. Deep marine sediments... 38 KB (4,255 words) - 23:40, 9 January 2024 |
Paleomagnetism (redirect from Seafloor magnetism) continental drift, while marine magnetic anomalies did the same for seafloor spreading. Paleomagnetic data continues to extend the history of plate tectonics... 19 KB (2,258 words) - 21:07, 25 March 2024 |
deeper. During seafloor spreading, lithosphere and mantle cooling, contraction, and isostatic adjustment with age cause seafloor deepening. This relationship... 17 KB (2,147 words) - 10:49, 29 November 2023 |
dispersion Seafloor spreading, the process leading to continental drift Spread spectrum, communications signals over a range of frequencies Spread Toolkit... 3 KB (379 words) - 08:12, 17 February 2024 |
boundaries, forming a zigzag pattern. This is a result of oblique seafloor spreading where the direction of motion is not perpendicular to the trend of... 13 KB (1,693 words) - 02:36, 2 February 2024 |
one views the seafloor between the fracture zones as conveyor belts carrying the ridge on each side of the rift away from the spreading center the action... 6 KB (761 words) - 07:57, 14 March 2024 |
Cayman Trough (redirect from Mid-Cayman spreading centre) Report: WHOI-83-34. Ten Brink, Uri S., et al., 2001, Asymmetric seafloor spreading: crustal thickness variations and transitional crust in Cayman Trough... 9 KB (967 words) - 11:26, 21 August 2023 |
over the Mesozoic to Cenozoic periods following the Wilson Cycle. Seafloor spreading in the central Atlantic Ocean likely occurred around 134-126 Ma on... 7 KB (769 words) - 02:57, 4 February 2024 |
Red Sea Rift (section Spreading model) rift motion was seen in the lower/middle Eocene, followed by major seafloor spreading in the late Eocene and early Oligocene. This was followed by a period... 7 KB (917 words) - 21:05, 26 January 2024 |
geophysicist by the name of Harry H. Hess hypothesized that the seafloor was spreading from the mid ocean ridge system. With support from the maps of the... 18 KB (2,063 words) - 17:44, 26 March 2024 |
Marine sediment (redirect from Seafloor sediment) sediment, or ocean sediment, or seafloor sediment, are deposits of insoluble particles that have accumulated on the seafloor. These particles either have... 109 KB (12,371 words) - 12:10, 15 January 2024 |
century. Plate tectonics came to be accepted by geoscientists after seafloor spreading was validated in the mid-to-late 1960s. Earth's lithosphere, the rigid... 14 KB (4,385 words) - 12:15, 30 October 2023 |
During the seafloor spreading process, three episodes of spreading were classified based on the magnetic anomalies. The seafloor spreading center jumps... 21 KB (3,154 words) - 03:08, 27 December 2023 |
Gulf of Mexico seafloor spreading starts inc. exposed northern Lowlands; cf 144 144 Ma Early Cretaceous Caribbean Sea seafloor spreading starts cf 120... 48 KB (3,744 words) - 19:55, 28 February 2024 |
Woodlark Basin (section Sea-floor spreading) Guinea. The basin is an extensional basin that is actively spreading and has a seafloor spreading center. The basin formed between the then Indo-Australian... 34 KB (3,523 words) - 14:59, 19 January 2024 |
Active and inactive spreading systems in this area are marked by the interaction with the Iceland hotspot. Seafloor spreading led to the extension of... 113 KB (12,286 words) - 16:29, 25 March 2024 |
Richard G.; Wang, Chengzu (2018). "Oblique seafloor spreading across intermediate and superfast spreading centers". Earth and Planetary Science Letters... 9 KB (981 words) - 18:45, 21 February 2024 |
billion years, it continues to change in shape. This is caused by seafloor spreading and continental drift, which rearranges the land and ocean. It has... 15 KB (1,800 words) - 22:22, 10 March 2024 |
Deep sea mining (redirect from Seafloor mining) approximately 200 °C Submarine seamount provinces are linked to hotspots and seafloor spreading and vary in depth. They show characteristic distributions. In the... 63 KB (7,191 words) - 12:40, 25 March 2024 |