The Youngest Part Of The Ocean Floor Is Found

The youngest crust of the ocean floor can be found near the seafloor spreading centers or mid ocean ridges as the plates split apart magma rises from below the earth s surface to fill in the empty void.

The youngest part of the ocean floor is found.

This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. This dataset shows the age of the ocean floor along with the labeled tectonic plates and boundaries. The youngest part of the ocean floor is found. Where earth s magnetic field changes polarity.

Where earth s magnetic field changes polarity. Oceanic crust is about 6 km 4 miles thick. The downward part of a convection current causes a sinking force that. Oceanic crust the outermost layer of earth s lithosphere that is found under the oceans and formed at spreading centres on oceanic ridges which occur at divergent plate boundaries.

Continental shelf 300 feet continental slope 300 10 000 feet abyssal plain 10 000 feet abyssal hill 3 000 feet up from the abyssal plain seamount 6 000 feet. Near ocean ridges is defined as the study of the history of earth s magnetic field. Because of this the youngest sea floor can be found along divergent boundaries such as the mid atlantic ocean ridge. Pulls tectonic plates toward one another.

The spreading however is generally not uniform causing linear features perpendicular to the divergent boundaries. 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. It is composed of several layers not including the overlying sediment. Along deep sea trenches b.

The youngest part of the ocean floor is found. Cratons are therefore always found within continents. Near ocean ridges d. Plates slide past one another at.

The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur. The oldest continental rocks are found in cratons.