Ocean floor pattern plotting learning objectives.
Magnetic ocean floor patterns.
Mapping of variation over an area is valuable in detecting structures obscured by overlying material.
The dynamic ocean floor 20.
These patterns were unlike any seen for continental rocks.
Magnetic stripes and isotopic clocks oceanographic exploration in the 1950s led to a much better understanding of the ocean floor.
When the earth s magnetic field reverses a new stripe with the new polarity begins.
Among the new findings was the discovery of zebra stripe like magnetic patterns for the rocks of the ocean floor.
Such magnetic patterns led to recognition of the occurrence of sea floor spreading and they remain some of the strongest evidence for the theory of plate tectonics.
This creates a symmetrical pattern of magnetic stripes of opposite polarity on either side of mid ocean ridges.
These patterns of stripes provide the history of seafloor spreading.
In geophysics a magnetic anomaly is a local variation in the earth s magnetic field resulting from variations in the chemistry or magnetism of the rocks.
As tectonic plates move apart new rock is formed and locks in the direction of the magnetic field at the time timing.
The earth s magnetic field has flipped the n pole becoming the s pole and vice versa many times over geological time.
The magnetic variation in successive bands of ocean floor parallel with mid ocean ridges is important evidence supporting the theory of.