Mapping the mid ocean ridge the east pacific rise is just one part of the mid ocean ridge the longest chain of mountains in the world.
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Differentiate continental crust from oceanic crust and explain why the continental crust is older than the.
The molten material spreads out pushing older rock to both sides of the ridge.
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The mid ocean ridge curves like the seams of a baseball along the sea floor extending into all of earth s oceans.
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Evidence for sea floor spreading in 1960 harry hess studied wegener s theory hess proposed the radical idea that the ocean floorsmove like a conveyer belt which in turn move thecontinents this movement begins at the mid ocean ridge whichforms along in a crack in the oceanic crust.
In 1912 when alfred wegener proposed that the continents had once been joined together and had split apart the biggest weakness in his hypothesis was the.
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This process that continually adds to the ocean floor is sea floor spreading.
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During world war ii geologist harry hess became interested in mapping the ocean floor using sonar.
Mid ocean ridge the longest chain of mountains in the world these are divergent plate boundaries.
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At the mid ocean ridge molten material rises from the mantle and erupts.
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S eafloor spreading this presentation reviews the major features of the seafloor and harold hess original theory of seafloor spreading.
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3 sea floor spreading sonar a device that bounces sound waves off under water objects and then records the echoes of these sound waves.
141 147 seafloor spreading until the 1950 s little was known about the ocean floor but after sonar was invented a complex ocean floor.
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