What are the key research questions currently being investigated regarding sea spreading?

... spreading axes supports the model of seafloor spreading in the eastern SW subbasin. ... Seafloor Spreading of the South China Sea[J]. Journal of Earth Science, ... May 23, 2022 ... Scientists from Brown University and University of California, Santa Barbara examined the spreading rates at 18 different ocean ridges.1 ... Seafloor Spreading at Mid-Ocean Ridges. Convection currents drive the movement of Earth's rigid tectonic plates in the planet's fluid molten mantle. In ... 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 ... Variations in the subduction regime in the NE Pacific could have caused the sudden northwards motion of Greenland and subsequent Eurekan deformation. These ... 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 ... Dec 1, 2018 ... Although the seafloor spreading Hess initially proposed was a virtually amagmatic process, little attention has been paid to that ... Feb 24, 2012 ... Reveals how seafloor topography, magnetic polarity, and age are evidence for the sea floor spreading hypothesis. JOIDES Resolution · seafloor spreading · The Transect (Video) · Three Seafloor Spreading Activities for the Price of One · How Fast is Superfast? · If the ... Apr 14, 2022 ... A new global analysis of the last 19 million years of seafloor spreading rates found they have been slowing down.