Seafloor spreading

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31Abyssal plain / Seafloor spreading / Lau Basin / Oceanic basin / Triple junction / Mid-ocean ridge / Transform fault / Slab pull / Ophiolite / Geology / Plate tectonics / Back-arc basin

Geol. Soc. Australia Spec. Publ. 22, and Geol. Soc. America Spec. Pap), 343–359 Tectonic evolution of the southwest Pacific using constraints from backarc basins M. SDROLIAS*, R. D. MÜLLER AND C. GAINA Div

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Language: English - Date: 2010-03-02 22:58:22
32Transform fault / Seafloor spreading / Oceanic crust / Pen / Hardboard / Desk / Magnet / Polarity / Convergent boundary / Geology / Plate tectonics / Physics

Sea floor spreading See also Earth’s magnetic field Magnetic banding using cocktail sticks A P 10 min Each pair of students has about 20 cocktail sticks half of which have been dyed black by being soaked in black ink.

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Language: English - Date: 2013-08-18 13:16:07
33Transform fault / Fault / Seafloor spreading / Olympic-Wallowa Lineament / Puget Sound faults / Geology / Structural geology / Plate tectonics

THE RULES OF SEA FLOOR SPREADING Purpose To work out what factors determine the amount of displacement of the ridge along a transform fault. To demonstrate the relationship between the movement of a continent and the ori

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Language: English - Date: 2014-04-21 06:04:36
34Continental crust / Seafloor spreading / Geology / Plate tectonics / Deep Sea Drilling Program

OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM LEG 210 SCIENTIFIC PROSPECTUS DRILLING THE NEWFOUNDLAND HALF OF THE NEWFOUNDLAND–IBERIA TRANSECT: THE FIRST CONJUGATE MARGIN DRILLING IN A NON-VOLCANIC RIFT

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Source URL: www-odp.tamu.edu

Language: English - Date: 2003-01-16 16:11:20
35Mid-ocean ridge / Hydrothermal vent / Volcano / Ocean / Seafloor spreading / Submarine volcano / Convergent boundary / Explorer Ridge / Geology / Plate tectonics / Seabed

To someone who can’t swim, the “deep sea” may be just above ankle level in the ocean. So what do scientists mean when they refer to the “deep sea”? The ocean floor is divided into

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Language: English - Date: 2008-11-09 18:43:07
36Glacial landforms / Earth / Sediments / Petrology / Glacier / Meltwater / West Antarctic Ice Sheet / Fjord / Sea level / Glaciology / Geology / Physical geography

pie rift basin to a marginal basin displaying the characteristics of the early stages of seafloor spreading (Jeffers, Anderson, and Lawyer in press). The scientific party of cruise VIII-86 included J.B. Anderson (chief s

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 07:41:27
37Cretaceous / Seafloor spreading / Large igneous province / Sea level / Oceanic crust / Back-arc basin / Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc / Oceanic core complex / Geology / Plate tectonics / Mid-ocean ridge

Mid-Cretaceous seafloor spreading pulse: Fact or fiction? M. Seton1*, C. Gaina2, R.D. Müller1, and C. Heine1† 1 EarthByte Group, School of Geosciences, Madsen Building F09, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Aust

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Language: English - Date: 2010-03-02 18:17:11
38Mid-ocean ridge / Heat transfer / Convection / Supercontinent cycle / Subduction / Lithosphere / Seafloor spreading / Convective heat transfer / Volcano / Geology / Plate tectonics / Mantle convection

Time variability in Cenozoic reconstructions of mantle heat flow: Plate tectonic cycles and implications for Earth’s thermal evolution S. J. Loyd*, T. W. Becker*†, C. P. Conrad‡, C. Lithgow-Bertelloni§, and F. A.

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Source URL: geodynamics.usc.edu

Language: English - Date: 2013-12-27 00:56:25
39Seafloor spreading / Large igneous province / Oceanic crust / Back-arc basin / Ophiolite / Subduction / Mantle plume / Continental crust / Hawaii hotspot / Geology / Plate tectonics / Mid-ocean ridge

How supercontinents and superoceans affect seafloor roughness

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Language: English - Date: 2013-10-27 18:53:45
40Continent-ocean boundary / Continental crust / Rift / Basin and Range Province / Orogeny / Seafloor spreading / Non-volcanic passive margins / Volcanic passive margin / Geology / Plate tectonics / Passive margin

1980b, 1983,1986; Webb in press). Savageand Savage and Ciesielskiplaced subunits 2A and 2B sediments in the Lower to Middle Miocene on the basis of diatom biostratigraphy. At site 272 a major decrease in

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Language: English - Date: 2011-05-06 07:40:57
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