what scientists discovered when they analyzed the magnetic bands on the ocean floor
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- In the 1970's, scientists sailed back and forth across the world’s oceans, measuring the magnetic signatures emanating from the oceanic crust beneath their ships. These surveys revealed a series of invisible magnetic “stripes” of normal and reversed polarity in the sea floor, like that shown in the figure below.
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- Sources of Deep Ocean-Basin Sediments, continued Chemical Deposits When substances that are dissolved in ocean water crystallize, these materials settle to the ocean floor as potato-shaped lumps of minerals called nodules. nodule a lump of minerals that is made of oxides of manganese, iron, copper, or nickel and that is found in scattered groups on the ocean floor Other minerals, such as phosphates, are also carried in the ocean floor before they crystallize and form mineral deposits on the ...
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- Geophysicists thought the inner core might be a mass of uniformly aligned crystals of iron because seismic waves travel at different speeds through the core, depending on whether they travel parallel to the Earth's rotation axis or perpendicular to it.eophysicists thought the inner core might be a mass of uniformly aligned crystals of iron because seismic waves travel at different speeds through the core, depending on whether they travel parallel to the Earth's rotation axis or perpendicular to it.
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How do magnetic stripes form on the ocean floor? geometry of their electron spin, such as iron. minerals of basalt , the rock that comes from lava erupting along Mid ocean ridges. rocks that form in that field parallel to the Rift. When the Earth's magnetic fieldreverses, the eruptive rocks take on that alignment.
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Oceanic crust Magnetic anomalies. The oceanic crust displays an interesting pattern of magnetic lines, parallel to the ocean ridges, frozen in the basalt. A symmetrical pattern of positive and negative magnetic lines emanates from the mid-ocean ridge. New rock is formed by magma at the mid-ocean ridges, and the ocean floor spreads out from this point. When the magma cools to form rock, its magnetic polarity is aligned with the then-current positions of the magnetic poles of the Earth.
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Paleomagnetism Paleomagnetism is studied on a number of scales: 1  Secular variation studies look at small-scale changes in the direction and intensity of the Earth's magnetic field. 2  The magnetic north pole is constantly shifting relative to the axis of rotation of the Earth.pparent polar wander paths provided the first clear geophysical evidence for continental drift, while marine magnetic anomalies did the same for seafloor spreading. Paleomagnetism continues to extend the history of plate tectonics back in time and are applied to the movement of continental fragments, or terranes.
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- The two major zones of the ocean are the sea floor, or bottom region, called the benthic realm and the watery region above the sea floor called the pelagic realm. Each of these is further divided into correspondent zones according to their living conditions (depth, temperature, and sunlight penetration).
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- • In Wegener's time, people wondered how the continents could move through solid rock. • New evidence in the 1950’s supported Wegener's proposal. • Scientists mapping the floor of the Atlantic Ocean found an underwater mountain chain in the middle of the Atlantic. PLATE TECTONICS
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- 26 CHAPTER 2  THE EARTH'S CRUST ON THE MOVE Old OldNew New Formation of new crust on the ocean floor. • SEA-FLOOR SPREADING In 1962 scientists dared to suggest that new crust is forming at the ocean ridges.They found evidence for this outrageous idea on the ocean floor.
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Oceanography Ocean currents. Since the early ocean expeditions in oceanography, a major interest was the study of the ocean currents and temperature measurements. The tides, the Coriolis effect, changes in direction and strength of wind, salinity and temperature are the main factors determining ocean currents.
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AS and A Level: Hazardous Environments However in 1948 a survey of the ocean floor found a ridge running north to south beneath the Atlantic Ocean. During the 1950's magnetic surveys of the ocean floor showed regular patterns of palaeomagnetic striping about the ridges.
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- Sea Floor Spreading. 1  Scientist found that the ocean floor contained. mountain ranges with a steep, narrow valley. 2  In 1947, scientists went to map the Mid-Atlantic. ridge. 3  The ocean floor was younger than the continents.
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- 11. 1960 s-Deep ocean floor exploration and the beginnings of Plate Tectonic Theory. Adaptation of the World War II echo sounder to measure ocean depths was a major breakthrough. It permitted the rapid, accurate determina tion of ocean depths.
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- Chemical oceanography is the study of the chemical parts of the sea and the presence and concentration of chemical elements such as zinc, copper, and nitrogen in the water. These two fields are the main focus of oceanography today.eological oceanography is the study of the geological structure and mineral content of the ocean floor. This includes mineral resource extraction (removal), seafloor mapping, and plate tectonics activities that offer clues to the origin of Earth. (Earth's crust is made up of large plates that fit together loosely.
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- C. the paleomagnetic pattern on one side of a ridge is very different to that on the other side of the ridge. D. lavas erupting at mid-ocean ridges today would preserve a positive polarity in the magnetic signal. E. the paleomagnetic stripes in the ocean floor rocks run parallel to the spreading ridge. 4.. where two ocean plates collide, magma rises through the overriding plate to form a back-arc basin. E. when two continents collide, a suture zone and a mountain range form at the collision zone. 4.
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- Black Smokers. Introduction Black smokers (hydrothermal vents) were discovered by scientists aboard the Alvin in 1977. They were looking for vents in the ocean floor where hot lava flowed out and mixed with seawater on the ocean floors where tectonic plates were separating.
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- The sea floor spreads apart at divergent boundaries. In the ocean, divergent boundaries are also called spreading centers.Mid-ocean ridges mark these sites where the ocean floor is spreadingapart. As the ridges continue to widen, a gap called a forms. Here molten material rises to build new crust.he records are the same on either side of the ridge.As scientists continued to map the ocean floor, they found morerecords of these reversals. By dating the rock, scientists had furtherevidence of plate movement. The youngest rock records the mostrecent reversal, which happened only about 760,000 years ago.
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Continental Drift and Seafloor Spreading So depending on when seafloor rocks were formed, their particles are aligned in either one direction or the other, and they are said to have either positive or negative magnetic anomalies. In the late 1960s, magnetometer data revealed an alternating “striped” pattern of seafloor rocks. Rocks that formed when Earth’s magnetic field was in one position alternated with rocks that formed when the field was reversed.
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How did Glomar Challenger help support seafloor spreading? How did research from the Glomar Challenger help scientists support the theory of seafloor spreading? Drill cores from the ocean floor were dated and found to be very young compared to the age of the earth.
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Mid-ocean ridge Mid-ocean ridges are geologically active, with new magma constantly emerging onto the ocean floor and into the crust at and near rifts along the ridge axes. The crystallized magma forms new crust of basalt (known as MORB for mid-ocean ridge basalt) and gabbro. They are formed by two oceanic plates moving away from each other. The rocks making up the crust below the seafloor are youngest along the axis of the ridge and age with increasing distance from that axis.
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Extra layer of tectonic plates discovered within Earth's mantle, scientists say Wednesday 24 May 2017 02.00 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 24 May 2017 02.01 EDT. Scientists say they have found a possible layer of tectonic plates within the Earth’s mantle which could explain a mysterious series of earthquakes in the Pacific. For more than half a century scientists have known that continents drift over the surface of our planet, and that the ocean floor tears apart in their wake, with magma from the mantle filling the gap.
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- In the 1970's, scientists sailed back and forth across the world’s oceans, measuring the magnetic signatures emanating from the oceanic crust beneath their ships. These surveys revealed a series of invisible magnetic “stripes” of normal and reversed polarity in the sea floor, like that shown in the figure below.The patterns reflect the creation and spreading of oceanic crust along the mid-oceanic ridges.asalt forming at the ridge crest picks up the existing magnetic polarity. Divergence then moves the swath of fresh crust away from the ridge. As long as the magnetic field remains constant, the polarity “stripe” widens. When the Earth’s magnetic field reverses, a new stripe, with the new polarity, begins.
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- What these reversals recorded were stripes on seafloor maps-- stripes of alternating normal and reversed polarities of ocean crust. These stripes formed the pattern known as magnetic striping. The ocean floor had a story to tell.That story would unfold in the work of three scientists.ne of these is the knowledge of the magnetic properties of ocean crust. Early in the 20th century, Bernard Brunhes in France and Motonari Matuyama in Japan recognized that rocks generally belong to two groups based on their magnetic properties.