Pangea Sea Floor Spreading

Africa center with antarctica below north and south america at stage left top and bottom eurasia.

Pangea sea floor spreading. The sea dancers float in and as the music turns dark pull pangea apart to the locations where the continents would appear on a map. Sea floor spreading occurs along mid ocean ridge when the tectonic plates slowly moves away from each other hot magma from the earths mantle comes up to the surface. The mid atlantic ridge for instance separates the north american plate from the eurasian plate and the south american plate from the african plate the east pacific rise is a mid ocean ridge that runs through the eastern pacific ocean and separates the pacific plate from the north american. Plate tectonics is the theory that describes how the outermost rigid layer of the earth has moved through time.

The pattern of seafloor spreading indicates that pangea did not break apart all at once but rather fragmented in distinct stages. Evidence of sea floor spreading. Evidence of sea floor spreading and pangaea. Pangea takes center stage.

This animation shows the breakup of pangea and the pattern of seafloor spreading that created the atlantic indian and pacific oceans during the last 150 million years. Scene 16 sea floor spreading. Hess describes sea floor spreading.