What factors contribute to changes in global sea level?

Nov 23, 2006 ... Geologist Donald Forsyth and students from Brown University on a routine ocean-floor mapping cruise jumped into action when they realized ... Seafloor spreading determines plate motion around a midocean ridge. Midocean ridges are always plate boundaries. Since many plates, such as the North American ... Seafloor spreading event in western Gulf of Aden during the November 2010 - March 2011 period captured by regional seismic networks: Evidence for diking ... A new theory that gives promise of eventually relating geomagnetism and the earth's internal and orbital dynamics. Jan 4, 2021 ... As the basaltic rocks that erupted along mid-ocean ridges during seafloor spreading cool, they record the Earth's magnetic field at the time of ... ... seafloor. At the same time the existing seafloor spreads (seafloor spreading) and presses the Earth's surface, including the continents, apart. In so-called ... Seafloor spreading is the mechanism that Wegener was looking for! Convection currents within the mantle drive the continents. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is dedicated to advancing knowledge of the ocean and its connection with the Earth system. We present a tectonic interpretation of the breakup and early seafloor spreading between India and Antarctica based on improved coverage of potential field and ... In the paradigm of plate tectonics, seafloor spreading is viewed as a perfectly symmetrical process - whereby equal areas of new oceanic crust are created ...