What are pillow basalts?

Because of this, the youngest sea floor can be found along divergent boundaries, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge. The spreading, however, is generally not ... Jan 10, 2012 ... ... spreading centre is an ultraslow-spreading ridge in the Caribbean Sea. Its extreme depth and geographic isolation from other mid-ocean ... Mar 2, 2017 ... Abstract ... Asymmetric seafloor spreading is indicated by the distances spanned over Chron intervals for the western and eastern flanks of the ... ... seafloor. At the same time the existing seafloor spreads (seafloor spreading) and presses the Earth's surface, including the continents, apart. In so-called ... Dec 15, 2000 ... Seafloor spreading started along the NW margin in the Late Jurassic. By extrapolating the age of the boundary between the continental and ... 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 ... Dec 1, 2018 ... Although the seafloor spreading Hess initially proposed was a virtually amagmatic process, little attention has been paid to that ... Natawidjaja [2000], spreading rate in the Andaman Sea is from Kamesh Raju et ... Changes in direction of seafloor spreading revisited, J. Geophys. Res ... SEAFLOOR SPREADING MIDOCEAN RIDGES FORM A GLOBAL SYSTEM DIVIDING THE CONTINENTS: FOR EXAMPLE THE MIDATLANTIC RIDGE DIVIDES THE ATLANTIC, MIRRORS THE S... Students will make a paper model illustrating the concept of sea-floor spreading and the development of symmetrical magnetic stripes on either side of a mid- ...