Seafloor spreading

These vent discoveries have not only taught scientists a wealth of information about the interior of the earth and the creation of these seafloor structures but the importance they have as a natural resource. These hydrothermal vents are responsible for forming vast mineral deposits on land. The Coppermine of Cyprus was created by vents millions of years ago before it became dry land (WHOI)…

Carbon is the backbone of life on Earth. All things are made of Carbon. It is a part of the ocean, air and even rocks. This carbon flows between each reservoir in an exchange called the Carbon Cycle. This cycle will be investigated to show an understanding of its functions and how human activity can severely impact this cycle. (insert hypothesis here). Human activity, with out proper regulation can lead to imbalance throughout the carbon cycle meaning the interference of a Global system much…

salmon farm of 200,000 can generate as much fecal matter, if not more, than a city with a population of 60,000. This fish sewage generated contains the uneaten food, feces and even diseases that usually drift down in concentration to the seafloor below before spreading to the surrounding areas. The diseases and pathogens created in the farms are entirely new to the native fish population of the region and exposure to such illness often spells certain death if contracted. Another problem with…

named Alfred Wegener. With a close examination of the globe, he observed that most of the continents seemed to fit together like a jigsaw puzzle, especially the West African coastline with the east coast of South America. After the discovery of seafloor spreading the theory was validated in the late 1950s. Richard was one of the first scientists to prove the theory of Plate tectonics. As an expert in Crustal extension, Richard contributed more than 50 pages worth of scientific data to further…

simply circumstantial evidence one example is continental drift which is the theory that all the continents used to be one giant continent that we now refer to as Pangea. Another idea that supports the theory of plate tectonics is seafloor spreading. Sea floor spreading is a process that happens in the middle of the ocean on ridges. New ocean crust is made by volcanoes and then slowly move away from the ridge. When the ocean plates move away from one another, new magma rises to the top and…

hit the shore. Sometimes the tsunami loses energy when it runs into a bay, entrance to a river, or structures in the water. But with nothing in its way, a tsunami can come in as a huge wave. It can also surge like a high tide gone out of control, spreading farther and farther inland. The energy in a tsunami can blast through and destroy anything in its path. People have often said that a tsunami sounds like a freight…

This essay on supercontinents was a tough piece to write about, but it was fun and I enjoyed writing about it. I had to think scientifically, but I also had to consider the audience on writing this paper. I had to go back and ask myself multiple times if the audience would understand this and be interested in reading this. I had to ask if this was too confusing, and if it was, what could I do to make it clearer and easier for the audience understand. This was probably the toughest essay out of…

In 2011, Japan experienced one of the largest earthquakes the country has ever had to face. On March 11, 2011 near the northeast coast of the island, Honshu, Japan, there was a 9.0 magnitude earthquake which took thousands of lives and caused endless destruction. According to the United States Geological Survey, this was the fourth largest earthquake in the world since 1900 (USGS, 2012). Earthquakes are a violent shaking of the ground caused by a rapid release of energy as a result of tectonic…

developed machines that help remove garbage from the ocean floor before a fish consumes it or turtles and other sea animals get tangled and eventually die from them. Miller’s information from her article Underwater Robots Clean Up Marine Debris on the Seafloor spreads positive meaning when she included information regarding what scientists called the Rozalia Project, which includes several robotic cleanup equipment that can locate debris on the ocean floor including: “tires, large pieces of…

Plate tectonics is the belief the lithosphere is separated into a few dozen plates that move around across the earth 's surface relative to each other, like big pieces of ice on a lake. If we were able to lay the earth flat to see where the plates were positioned, it would have the appearance of an orange peel; with the earth 's crust as the orange color shell and the white as the lithosphere. The break points would be fault lines, the plate’s outer perimeter that aligns and intersects them.…