How does sea spreading influence the morphology and evolution of ocean basins?

Mar 2, 2017 ... Abstract ... Asymmetric seafloor spreading is indicated by the distances spanned over Chron intervals for the western and eastern flanks of the ... Post-rift magmatism associated with seafloor spreading (∼32 Ma to ∼15 Ma) and post-spreading tectonics (from ∼15 Ma to the present day) is widely ... Apr 10, 1993 ... Updated interpretation of magnetic anomalies and seafloor spreading stages in the south China Sea: Implications for the Tertiary tectonics of ... Seafloor spreading event in western Gulf of Aden during the November 2010 - March 2011 period captured by regional seismic networks: Evidence for diking ... In the paradigm of plate tectonics, seafloor spreading is viewed as a perfectly symmetrical process - whereby equal areas of new oceanic crust are created ... Seafloor spreading occurs at divergent plate boundaries. As tectonic plates slowly move away from each other, heat from the mantle's convection currents makes ... Jan 10, 1981 ... ... seafloor spreading. | OSTI.GOV. ... Sea prior to the establishment of a mid-ocean ridge. It is suggested that the development of a new ocean ... Jan 17, 2014 ... The SW South China Sea preserves a propagating oceanic spreading centre and associated continent–ocean transition (COT) that characterizes ... Apr 23, 2014 ... Abstract. We review the seafloor spreading record of plate motions adjacent to the Antarctic continent during and after Cretaceous ... Mar 30, 2016 ... The magmatic, tectonic, and hydrothermal processes forming the oceanic crust along mid- ocean spreading centers are strongly modified at ...