Seafloor Spreading Video

A dynamic principle of geology was explained with harry hess discovery of sea floor spreading.

Seafloor spreading video.

A video clip featuring the discovery of seafloor spreading and its contribution to the development of the plate tectonics. Have you noticed lately that your students just aren t listening when you try to teac. The process is continuous because forces cause opposite sides of the midocean ridge to constantly move apart making new room for the process to repeat. 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.

This video clip is hosted by bill nye. I m sorry you somehow found this. Seafloor spreading is the continuous process of forming new igneous rock at midocean ridges by injection of magma that forms new seafloor. 08 05 found by infinitearchive in geology of the sea floor.

I didn t know it would come to this. Video sharing camera phone video phone free upload. March 31 2009 at 11 08 pm. This video goes over the process of sea floor spreading and the evidence that supports this theory.

Seafloor spreading occurs along mid ocean ridges large mountain ranges rising from the ocean floor.