Oceanography: Exploring Earth's Final Wilderness

The Spreading Sea Floor and Mid-Ocean Ridges

Documentary Nov 18, 2011 32 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

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S1 E6: What made the ocean floor the way it is? Trace the evidence that ocean basins are geologically young and that new oceanic crust is being continually formed at mid-ocean ridges, pushing and rifting continental plates in a process called plate tectonics.

Documentary Nov 18, 2011 32 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

TV-PG

Information

Released: 2011
Run Time: 32 min
Rated: TV-PG

Languages

Audio: English (AAC), English (United States)
Subtitles: English (CC)

Accessibility

: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.