Sea Floor Sketch

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Sea floor sketch.

All the best sea floor drawing 37 collected on this page. Two plates move away from each other then hot rock from mantle below migrates up and fills void the hot rock cools and makes a new oceanic lithosphere. Seafloor spreading occurs along mid ocean ridges large mountain ranges rising from the ocean floor. Each consist of three sheets a base bathymetric map a magnetic map and.

The mid atlantic ridge for instance separates the north american plate from the eurasian plate and the south american plate from the african plate the east pacific rise is a mid ocean ridge that runs through the eastern pacific ocean and separates the pacific plate from the north american. The process of sea floor spreading. Vector illustration stock illustrations by stockakia 7 258 underwater borders stock illustrations by lenm 7 557 funny frame with underwater sea lif clipart by verzh 4 306 sea floor card drawing by artanika 2 78 children s illustration with lighthouse and sailboat. 2 5 sketch and describe the movement along a divergent plate boundary that results in the formation of new oceanic lithosphere.

The mid ocean ridge is the region where new oceanic crust is created. Data collected from the sea floor can establish motion of. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. Like the scientists before us we will now merge the ideas of continental drift and seafloor spreading into the theory of plate tectonics.

This product is intended to aid fishermen and those needing seafloor features and potential fishing grounds. The oceanic crust is composed of rocks that move away from the ridge as new crust is being formed. Seafloor spreading theory that oceanic crust forms along submarine mountain zones and spreads out laterally away from them. Choose your favorite sea floor drawings from millions of available designs.

The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur. On the sea floor and funny fish clip art by nearbirds 4 152 underwater walk on. Topographic maps of the sea floor produced at a 1 100 000 scale that contain loran c rates bottom sediment types and known bottom obstructions. The formation of the new crust is due to the rising of the molten material magma from the mantle by convection current.

When the concept of seafloor spreading came along scientists recognized that it was the mechanism to explain how continents could move around earth s surface.