Spreading rates determine if the ridge is fast intermediate or slow.
Sea floor spreading geology definition.
Seafloor spreading occurs along mid ocean ridges large mountain ranges rising from the ocean floor.
In the theory of plate tectonics the process by which new oceanic crust is formed by the convective upwelling of magma at mid ocean ridges resulting in.
Sea floor spreading synonyms sea floor spreading pronunciation sea floor spreading translation english dictionary definition of sea floor spreading.
The rate at which new oceanic lithosphere is added to each tectonic plate on either side of a mid ocean ridge is the spreading half rate and is equal to half of the spreading rate.