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1. The Living Machine
   ... This ampquotBig Ideaampquot helps to explain many things such as plate tectonics, ocean floor spreading, continental drift, volcanoes, earthquakes, just about everything ...
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2. Tectonic Plates and The Plate Tectonics Theory
   ... it was concluded that the lava that had cooled on the bottom of the ocean produced parallel magnetic patterns, reinforcing the seafloor spreading theory. ...
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3. Plate Tectonics Theory
   ... The majority of transform faults are found on the ocean floor and commonly offset the active spreading ridges, producing zigzag plate margins, and are ...
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4. PLate Tetonics
   ... rift system. Harry Hess proposed that new ocean floor is formed at the rift of midocean ridges or sea floor spreading. The ocean ...
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5. Earthquake
   ... be determined. Knowing the time and distance, the veloci ty of the ocean floor spreading can then be determined. It takes about ...
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6. pangaea
   ... In 1963 and 1973 studies, J.Tuzo Wilson gave further credence to Dietzamp39s sea floor spreading by observing that as one moves away from midocean ridges the ages ...
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7. Plate Tectonics
   ... most interesting feature of the ocean was the ridges running along the ocean floor. ... This sea floor spreading was how the continents had moved over millions of ...
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8. Plate Tectonics
   ... most interesting feature of the ocean was the ridges running along the ocean floor. ... This sea floor spreading was how the continents had moved over millions of ...
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9. Ocean
   ... basins or primordial oceans such as the Red Sea are formed by sea floor spreading. ... and conditions reefs and evaporites will form As the ocean widens sandstones ...
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10. Land form Pattern and Processes
    ... Seafloor Spreading: ridges split apart the rocky crust of two ocean floor and push continents farther away from each other. Plate ...
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11. The Gaian Theory
    ... alterations in the granite continents floating on the sea of the basaltic ocean floors ... name of Harry Hess came up with the theory of sea floor spreading in 1962 ...
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12. geography
    ... Atlantic Ocean. The sea floor must be spreading and new ocean floor is coming from the ridge and moving outwards. Other evidence ...
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13. Continental Drift
    ... Seafloor Spreading Geophysicists, mapping the ocean floor with an instrument that measures magnetic fields, showed that the rocks on one side of the midocean ...
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14. THE OCEAN COASTAL ZONE
    ... were once a single great mass of land surrounded with one body of ocean. ... and later scientist formed a new theory called seafloor spreading, which explained ...
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15. hydrothermal vents
    ... As cracks form at these spreading centers, seawater seeps a mile or two down into ... leached from the rock, the water heats and rises to the ocean floor to form a ...
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16. The Pacific Ocean Basin
    ... and rises an average of about 2130 m about 7000 ft above the ocean floor. ... primordial oceans such as the Red Sea are formed by incipient seafloor spreading. ...
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17. Earthquakes/Plate Techtonics
    ... Washington, DC, American Geophysical Union, 986 p. Dietz, RS, 1961, Continent and ocean basin evolution by spreading of the sea floor: Nature, v. 190, p. 3041 ...
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18. earth
    ... Active areas of sea floor spreading, such as the centers in the eastern Pacific that ... It diameter is about two thirds the greatest width of the Atlantic Ocean. ...
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19. Galapagos Islands
    As are of the spreading of the sea floor the movement of the plates in ... From the time they first broke through the ocean floor, some 79 million years ago, the ...
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20. Earthquakes are OK
    ... as magma rises and eventually sets on the sea floor. ... continue to spread then the ocean slowly becomes larger in width, a process called seafloor spreading. ...
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21. Earthquakes
    ... 50 occur art sub duction zones concentrated along the ring of fire Ocurre in variety of settings mid ocean ridges the sea floor spreading centers VOLCANIC ...
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22. Down the Drain: Ocean Pollution and Our World
    ... the dumping of drilled mud on the sea floor near offshore ... Examples of trash found in the ocean are: syringes ... 9. For example, the spreading of hotels across the ...
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23. Global Warming Fact or Fiction
    ... atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to ... The sea floor is still spreading, and we ...
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24. NoneProvided
    ... reach deep water sources or have spreading shallow roots ... In rain forests, little light reaches the forest floor. ... ways in which it and the ocean transport heat. ...
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25. Peregrine Falcon
    ... large deserts, jungles and isolated islands throughout the ocean. ... found in soft earth on the floor of the ... eliminated from eastern US, and was spreading west. ...
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26. Fray Junipero Serra
    ... and lies today under the sanctuary floor in front of ... soldiers who were responsible for the spreading of diseases ... he came across the Atlantic Ocean with Serra ...
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27. Industrial Revolution in Britain
    ... were built for waste to stop disease and germs spreading. ... 2 The ships sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the ... and waste would often be found on the floor. ...
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28. Thailand
    ... Musicians sit on the floor to play, and generally ... the early 1990s exports of ocean products, particularly ... early October, as disorder was spreading, a military ...
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29. Thailand1
    ... Musicians sit on the floor to play, and generally ... the early 1990s exports of ocean products, particularly ... early October, as disorder was spreading, a military ...
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