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.
That the age of the sea floor increases with increasing distance from the spreading center at an ocean ridge. The theory of sea-floor spreading states that new ocean lithosphere is created at ocean ridges, so the ocean floor should be younger closer to the ridges and older farther from the ridges.