What are some of the remaining mysteries and active areas of research in the field of sea spreading?

Apr 14, 2022 ... A new global analysis of the last 19 million years of seafloor spreading rates found they have been slowing down. The Earth's magnetic field has north and south poles. Geophysical observations suggest that the Earth's magnetic field is generated within the liquid of the ... formed since ~6 Ma by westward stepping seafloor spreading following the rifting of continental and arc lithosphere. The N-S striking Moresby Transform divides ... Sep 25, 2008 ... Muller, R.D., M. Sdrolias, C. Gaina, and W.R. Roest 2008. Age, spreading rates and spreading symmetry of the world's ocean crust, Geochem. Mar 24, 2025 ... seafloor spreading ... seafloor spreading, theory that oceanic crust forms along submarine mountain zones, known collectively as the mid-ocean ... May 21, 2024 ... From the extent of new oceanic crust accreted along the CB, we estimate the age of the basin using a seafloor spreading rate of 52 mm/year, ... seafloor spreading data. The advantages of the new experiment are that it provides the first continuous least squares model description of plate motions ... ... seafloor. At the same time the existing seafloor spreads (seafloor spreading) and presses the Earth's surface, including the continents, apart. In so-called ... Jan 10, 2012 ... ... spreading centre is an ultraslow-spreading ridge in the Caribbean Sea. Its extreme depth and geographic isolation from other mid-ocean ... Apr 3, 2008 ... The grids include data from all the major ocean basins as well as detailed reconstructions of back-arc basins. The age, spreading rate, and ...