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    The document describes the seafloor spreading hypothesis proposed by Harry Hess and Robert Dietz. It states that seafloor spreading is the process where tectonic plates split apart at mid-ocean ridges due to mantle convection, causing the formation of new oceanic crust. There are three types of plate boundaries: mid-ocean ridges, trenches, and transform faults. Seafloor spreading results in the constant widening of the seafloor over geologic timescales.

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    The document describes the seafloor spreading hypothesis proposed by Harry Hess and Robert Dietz. It states that seafloor spreading is the process where tectonic plates split apart at mid-ocean ridges due to mantle convection, causing the formation of new oceanic crust. There are three types of plate boundaries: mid-ocean ridges, trenches, and transform faults. Seafloor spreading results in the constant widening of the seafloor over geologic timescales.

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    The document describes the seafloor spreading hypothesis proposed by Harry Hess and Robert Dietz. It states that seafloor spreading is the process where tectonic plates split apart at mid-ocean ridges due to mantle convection, causing the formation of new oceanic crust. There are three types of plate boundaries: mid-ocean ridges, trenches, and transform faults. Seafloor spreading results in the constant widening of the seafloor over geologic timescales.

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    The document describes the seafloor spreading hypothesis proposed by Harry Hess and Robert Dietz. It states that seafloor spreading is the process where tectonic plates split apart at mid-ocean ridges due to mantle convection, causing the formation of new oceanic crust. There are three types of plate boundaries: mid-ocean ridges, trenches, and transform faults. Seafloor spreading results in the constant widening of the seafloor over geologic timescales.

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    Seafloor Spreading

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    Objectives:
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    • Describe the Seafloor Spreading Hypothesis

    • Illustrate and explain the processes involved


    in the Seafloor Spreading Hypothesis

    • Enumerate and describe the three types of


    boundaries between plates
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    Seafloor
    Click Spreading
    to edit Master title styleHypothesis

    • Harry Hess, a petrologist


    at Princeton University

    • Robert Dietz,
    oceanographer at US
    Coast and Geodetic
    Survey

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    Seafloor
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    • Geologic process
    where tectonic plates
    split up and oceanic
    plates move away
    from each other
    • A result of mantle
    convection

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    Seafloor
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    • 3 Types of Boundaries
    between plates:

    • Mid-ocean ridges

    • Trenches

    • Transform faults
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    Seafloor Spreading Hypothesis
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    • Convection current carry the


    heat to the lithosphere

    • As the plate moves during plate


    tectonics, heat makes the crust
    more less dense

    • Less dense material forms as


    mountains or elevated areas in
    the seafloor

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    Seafloor
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    • Occurs in mid-oceanic
    ridges
    • Continuous process
    of igneous rock
    formation at mid-
    oceanic ridges
    • Magma is repeatedly
    injected to form the
    new seafloor
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    Seafloor
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    • Older seafloors are


    found farther away
    from mid-ocean
    ridges
    • Seafloor elevation
    progressively lowers
    away from mid-ocean
    ridges

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    Seafloor
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    to edit Master title style Hypothesis

    • This continuous
    process makes the
    seafloor spread
    • Can result in an ever-
    widening seafloor
    • Only ends when mid-
    ocean ridges are
    subducted
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