Globally the rate of seafloor spreading takes place at the same rate as.
Subduction of the ocean floor takes place at.
In what areas does the subduction of the ocean floor take place.
The subduction process is credited with being the single largest contributor behind the theory of plate tectonics.
Allows part of the ocean floor to sink into the mantle.
Ocean floor fall into trenches and also where subduction takes place.
Subduction occurs here due to the ocean floor being of denser rock.
How do moving plates change earth s crust.
Takes place at underwater canyons and it allows the ocean floor to seem wider.
This place is known as a subduction zone.
Subduction caused volcanism and earthquake activity occur frequently along the outer edges of the pacific ocean in an area known as the pacific ring of fire.
The process of the ocean floor sinking beneath ocean trenches and into the mantle.
Marine magnetic anomalies can be used to estimate the.
A device the uses sound waves to measure the distance to an object.
Sea floor spreading takes place at the mid ocean ridge where two oceanic plates are spreading pulling apart from one another.
Subduction of the ocean floor takes place at trenches.
Earthquakes take place primarily on fault lines.
In fact this area has seen the eight most powerful earthquakes ever recorded and is home to over 75 percent of the world s active and dormant volcanoes.
A depression in the ocean floor where subduction takes place is called.
Which of these parts of the deep ocean floor is flat and nearly featureless.
Rate of seafloor spreading.
In what boundary do 2 plates pull apart.
Plate motions are the visible part of what process.
This sudden movement on the ocean floor results in displaced water which moves toward.
The place where subduction has occurred however does not result in the formation of mountains.
The process called destroys old oceanic crust at subduction zones.
Subduction zones occur at.
The process that powers plate tectonics a.
The lower mantle b.
For example there is a major fault line off the western coast of south america.
