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  2. Seafloor depth versus age - Wikipedia

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    The cooling mantle model explains the age-depth observations for seafloor younger than 80 million years. The cooling plate model explains the age-depth observations best for seafloor older that 20 million years. In addition, the cooling plate model explains the almost constant depth and heat flow observed in very old seafloor and lithosphere.

  3. Seafloor spreading - Wikipedia

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    Depth is better explained by a cooling lithosphere plate model rather than the cooling mantle half-space. [27] The plate has a constant temperature at its base and spreading edge. Analysis of depth versus age and depth versus square root of age data allowed Parsons and Sclater [27] to estimate model parameters (for the North Pacific):

  4. Tectonics of the South China Sea - Wikipedia

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    The subduction model indicates that the opening of the South China Sea was caused by the slab pull from the subduction of a proto-South China Sea oceanic plate south under Borneo. The existence of the Sabah orogeny supports this subduction. [10] The subduction starts in the Paleocene and ended in the Early Miocene. [11]

  5. Trobriand plate - Wikipedia

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    The Trobriand Trough contains large thrust sheets, spaced 5–7 km (3.1–4.3 mi) apart at the western landward slope of the trough, ponding sediments behind them and this is consistent with fairly recent convergence, and this would if current could fix the Trobriant plate against the Solomon Sea plate. [13] It is possible to model with the ...

  6. Plate tectonics - Wikipedia

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    Plate tectonics (from Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós) 'pertaining to building') [1] is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.

  7. Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The Vine–Matthews–Morley hypothesis, also known as the Morley–Vine–Matthews hypothesis, was the first key scientific test of the seafloor spreading theory of continental drift and plate tectonics. Its key impact was that it allowed the rates of plate motions at mid-ocean ridges to be computed.

  8. Seabed - Wikipedia

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    The seabed (also known as the seafloor, sea floor, ocean floor, and ocean bottom) is the bottom of the ocean. All floors of the ocean are known as 'seabeds'. The structure of the seabed of the global ocean is governed by plate tectonics. Most of the ocean is very deep, where the seabed is known as the abyssal plain. Seafloor spreading creates ...

  9. Wilson Cycle - Wikipedia

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    The Wilson cycle theory is based upon the idea of an ongoing cycle of ocean closure, continental collision, and a formation of new ocean on the former suture zone.The Wilson Cycle can be described in six phases of tectonic plate motion: the separation of a continent (continental rift), formation of a young ocean at the seafloor, formation of ocean basins during continental drift, initiation of ...