Seafloor Spreading Video

This can result in an ever widening seafloor at the.

Seafloor spreading video.

A video clip featuring the discovery of seafloor spreading and its contribution to the development of the plate tectonics. 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. March 31 2009 at 11 08 pm. I m sorry you somehow found this.

This video goes over the process of sea floor spreading and the evidence that supports this theory. The process is continuous because forces cause opposite sides of the midocean ridge to constantly move apart making new room for the process to repeat. This video clip is hosted by bill nye. 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.

A dynamic principle of geology was explained with harry hess discovery of sea floor spreading. I didn t know it would come to this. Seafloor spreading occurs along mid ocean ridges large mountain ranges rising from the ocean floor. Seafloor spreading is the continuous process of forming new igneous rock at midocean ridges by injection of magma that forms new seafloor.

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