Given your answers in part A, did the North Atlantic Ocean Basin develop by adding lithosphere symmetrically along the mid-ocean ridge, or was new lithosphere added more rapidly to one side than the other? If spreading was asymmetric, which plate had more lithosphere added, or did the asymmetry vary from plate to plate over time?

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Braxton West

Geography

17 October, 16:58

Given your answers in part A, did the North Atlantic Ocean Basin develop by adding lithosphere symmetrically along the mid-ocean ridge, or was new lithosphere added more rapidly to one side than the other? If spreading was asymmetric, which plate had more lithosphere added, or did the asymmetry vary from plate to plate over time?

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Keira Roman · Answer 1

Seafloor spreading is a geologic process in which tectonic plates-large slabs of Earth's lithosphere-split apart from each other.

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Seafloor spreading is a geologic process in which tectonic plates-large slabs of Earth's lithosphere-split apart from each other.