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Sea-Floor Spreading

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-024930

Sea-floor spreading is what happens at the mid-oceanic ridge where a divergent boundary is causing two plates to move away from one another resulting in spreading of the sea floor. As the plates move apart, new material wells up and cools onto the edge of the plates.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-024930
FieldEnvironment
ReferencesUSGS Earthquake Glossary
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-024930",
  "term": "Sea-Floor Spreading",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "Sea-floor spreading is what happens at the mid-oceanic ridge where a divergent boundary is causing two plates to move away from one another resulting in spreading of the sea floor. As the plates move apart, new material wells up and cools onto the edge of the plates.",
  "references": [
    "USGS Earthquake Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/sea-floor-spreading/"
}

Record 24,930 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.