Search results for "Seafloor spreading" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • of what is known as an oceanic spreading center. The uplifted seafloor ... formation of 2.5 square kilometers of new seafloor. In this manner, the Earth ...
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  • half of the twentieth century, and seafloor spreading, understood during ... work on the association of seafloor spreading and magnetic field ...
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  • [[Image:Wegener.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Plate tectonics - seafloor spreading and continental drift illustrated on relief globe of the Field Museum ]] ...
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  • northeast by transform faults. Additional spreading helped to create the "triple ... created new hydrocarbon traps. The seafloor began spreading from the ...
    31 KB (4,598 words) - 06:22, 12 August 2023
  • were being rafted apart by the process of seafloor spreading. The Vikings, the Portuguese, and Christopher Columbus were the most famous among ...
    27 KB (4,091 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
  • By c. 3000 B.C.E., Austronesians on Taiwan had begun spreading into ... Seafloor massive sulphide deposits are potential sources of silver ...
    69 KB (10,326 words) - 23:04, 22 April 2023
  • noticed in the early twentieth century, and seafloor spreading, noticed in the 1960s. The theory was developed during the late 1960s and has since been ...
    38 KB (5,592 words) - 17:34, 12 February 2024