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.
Sea floor spreading is actually the creation of new oceanic  basaltic crust at divergent plate boundaries called mid-ocean  ridges.Material from the asthenosphere becomes m â¦ olten as  convection currents cause it to rise toward the thin upraised  boundary between plates there.preading of seafloor occurs at the mid-ocean rifts, where there is a continuous flow of material rising from the mantle. There is not a unanimously accepted theory as to the â¦ cause of the rifting that is taking place.