seafloor spreading
Formation of new oceanic crust as plates move apart at an ocean ridge.
All languages
- English
- seafloor spreading
- Norwegian
- havbunnsspredning
- Japanese
- 海洋底拡大 — かいようていかくだい — kaiyōtei kakudai
- Korean
- 해저 확장 — haejeo hwakjang
- Spanish
- expansión del fondo oceánico
- French
- expansion océanique
- German
- Ozeanbodenspreizung
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