By Charles Allen PhilipsBy Charles Allen Philips

Sea-floor spreading Sea-floor spreading

The sea floor

• The sea-floor of earth is one of the most unique things in the whole world.

• Seafloor-spreading is one of the many things that happens in the seafloor

What is seafloor-spreading?

• Seafloor-spreading is the formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma at mid-ocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side.

What does it do?

• Seafloor spreading helps explain continental drift in the theory of plate tectonics

How does it occur?

• Sea floor spreading starts with volcanic activity on the ocean floor. When the earth cracks apart at the plates, magma rises to the surface and pushes the plates farther apart.

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• What is sea floor spreading?

• How does it occur?

• What does it do?