Bigint Data Type The Bigint data type represents an integer value. It can be stored in 8 bytes. Formula 2^(n-1) is the formula of the maximum value of a Bigint data type. In the preceding formula N is the size of the data type.
2016-10-28T08:31:05-04:00. Pillow lava is evidence of sea-floor spreading because the lava comes up out of cracks at the mid-ocean ridge and becomes newly formed rock. The farther away you get from the mid-ocean ridge, the older the rock is.
Age of oceanic crust: youngest (red) is along spreading centres. Seafloor spreading happens at the bottom of an ocean as tectonic plates move apart. The seafloor moves and carries continents with it. At ridges in the middle of oceans, new oceanic crust is created. At the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (and other places), material from the upper mantle rises through the faults between oceanic plates. It forms new crust as the plates move away from each other. The new crust then slowly moves away from the ridge. Seafloor spreading helps explain continental drift in plate tectonics. Earlier theories (e.g. by Alfred Wegener) of continental drift were that continents 'plowed' through the ocean.