It is also said that he thought that the rectangular chambers looked like the cells in some monasteries. Physically cells always have a boundary membrane, a little like a polythene bag encloses contents within it. Inside the space limited by the membrane there is an remarkable chemical processing unit.
Iceland is a place where, because of large amounts of lava extrusion, the ocean floor is, in effect, above sea level, making it easy to study ocean floor spreading. You can affix strain gauges on many parts of the spreading ridge. 6 people found this useful.
The result of the addition of new sea floor rock is that the Atlantic Ocean between these sets of continents is widening. North and South America move farther away from Eurasia and Africa each year. The youngest sea floor rocks are found in the middle of the ocean because that is where new sea floor is added.ackground. Sea floor spreading is one component of the theory of plate tectonics. According to this concept, at ridges in many of the world's oceans (mid-ocean ridges), new crustal rock is added to the edges of plates on either side of the mid-ocean ridge.