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those located at the fault in the bottom of the ocean because it is a volcano and produces new rock everytime the lava cools.
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∙ 12y agoAt the mid-ocean ridges.
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What states the youngest rocks of ocean floor are at a diverging boundaries moving outward?
seafloor spreading
Where are the youngest rocks in sea-floor spreading?
Closest to the ridge
Where do most rocks have a basaltic composition?
on the ocean floor
How would the age of the oldest rocks on the continents compare with the age of the oldest rocks on the seafloor if the rock on the continents is continually formed but not removed?
The oldest rocks on the continents would be much older than the rocks on the sea floor because the rocks on the continents are not being removed unlike the rocks on the sea floor that are made by the mid-ocean ridge are being removed by deep ocean trenches. this prossess that is occuring on the sea floor is called sea floor spreading. evidence of this is the Pacific ocean shrinking and the Atlantic ocean growing.
What is the type of crust formed on the ocean floor?
Oceanic crust, formed mostly of mafic rocks, or sima, is found on the ocean floor.
Where can you find the youngest rocks on the ocean floor?
you can find the youngest rocks on the top of the ocean floor.
The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are located where?
The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are located at mid-ocean ridges. These ridges are always found at divergent boundaries.
The youngest rocks in the ocean floor are located at the mid ocean?
Ridges
The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are located?
The youngest part of the ocean floor is found at conservative plate boundaries where oceanic crust is pulled apart and magma rises from the mantle to form new oceanic crust.
Where are the youngest rocks in the Atlantic ocean?
At the mid-atlantic ridge, where the ocean floor is spreading.
Are the youngest rock on the ocean floor near or far from mid- ocean ridges?
Is the following sentence true or false? the theory of sea-floor spreading explains why rocks of the ocean floor are youngest near the mid-ocean ridge.____
What states the youngest rocks of ocean floor are at a diverging boundaries moving outward?
seafloor spreading
Where are the youngest rocks found on the seafloor?
Near fault lines, it is there that rocks are created by the rubbing or colliding of the tectonic plates. Rocks could also be made by volcanoes via the cooling of magma and lava. The closer to the fault line you are the newer the rock and the farther away you get the older the rock becomes.
Where are the youngest rocks in the ocean located?
mid-ocean ridges
Where are the youngest rocks on the ocean floor typically found?
fault line
When scientist drilled into the ocean floor taking rock samples what did they discover about the age of the rocks?
oldest at the bottom youngest on top. Its the law of superposition. They also found that the age of rocks increases with increased distance from mid-ocean-ridges.
Is ocean floor smooth?
The ocean floor is not smooth.The ocean floor is made up of rocks, ledges and ditches.
