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.
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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.
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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.
Some of the worksheets for this concept are sea floor spreading work inside earth work name date sea floor spreading l 1 2 3 a model of seafloor spreading sea floor spreading sea floor spreading modeling sea floor spreading chapter 8 plate tectonics.
Final assignment for geog 203 on seafloor spreading.
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