What are the major phases in the opening and closing of ocean basins throughout Earth's history (Wilson Cycle)?

Jan 10, 2012 ... ... spreading centre is an ultraslow-spreading ridge in the Caribbean Sea. Its extreme depth and geographic isolation from other mid-ocean ... seafloor spreading data. The advantages of the new experiment are that it provides the first continuous least squares model description of plate motions ... Mar 21, 2023 ... Seafloor spreading is a geological process by which new oceanic crust forms at mid-ocean ridges through volcanic activities and then slowly moves away from the ... Mar 2, 2017 ... Abstract ... Asymmetric seafloor spreading is indicated by the distances spanned over Chron intervals for the western and eastern flanks of the ... Dec 1, 2018 ... Although the seafloor spreading Hess initially proposed was a virtually amagmatic process, little attention has been paid to that ... 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. Apr 23, 2014 ... Abstract. We review the seafloor spreading record of plate motions adjacent to the Antarctic continent during and after Cretaceous ... Mar 2, 2025 ... Ancient seafloor spreading 15 million years ago caused sea levels to plummet ... Between 15 million and 6 million years ago, a drop in ocean crust ... 2 cm * 475 km/cm = 950 km = 95,000,000 cm = 9.5 * 107 cm · 65 million years = 65,000,000 years = 6.5 * 107 years. 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 ...