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 sea floor spreads apart at divergent boundaries. In the ocean, divergent boundaries are also called spreading centers.Mid-ocean ridges mark these sites where the ocean floor is spreadingapart. As the ridges continue to widen, a gap called a forms. Here molten material rises to build new crust.he records are the same on either side of the ridge.As scientists continued to map the ocean floor, they found morerecords of these reversals. By dating the rock, scientists had furtherevidence of plate movement. The youngest rock records the mostrecent reversal, which happened only about 760,000 years ago.