What are the challenges and future directions in research on sea spreading and its role in Earth's dynamic systems?

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is dedicated to advancing knowledge of the ocean and its connection with the Earth system. Apr 25, 2022 ... Seafloor spreading is the process of magma welling up in the rift as the old crust pulls itself in opposite directions. Cold seawater cools the ... Apr 10, 1993 ... Updated interpretation of magnetic anomalies and seafloor spreading stages in the south China Sea: Implications for the Tertiary tectonics of ... Apr 14, 2023 ... Identifying Neoarchean Seafloor Spreading using a Modern Back-arc Basin Analogue. Presented at the Metal Earth Scientific Meetings, ... The stages of rifting, spreading and the cessation, of activity the South China Sea basin in Cenozoic appears to be coeval with the progressive closure of the ... Nov 13, 2018 ... The Red Sea is an important example of a rifted continental shield proceeding to seafloor spreading. However, whether the crust in the ... Hess proposes sea-floor spreading 1960. Photo: Harry Hess argues that the continents had once been one, and have drifted apart. Apr 14, 2022 ... A new global analysis of the last 19 million years of seafloor spreading rates found they have been slowing down. Variations in the subduction regime in the NE Pacific could have caused the sudden northwards motion of Greenland and subsequent Eurekan deformation. These ... Apr 23, 2021 ... We use a compilation of earthquake and vertical gravity gradient data together with high-resolution bathymetry to show that ocean spreading is occurring ...