How does sediment accumulation affect the bathymetry of a spreading center? Where are the affects more pronounced? Answer: Sediment accumulation will smooth out the bathymetric features and it is more pronounced with greater distance from the spreading center because there has been a longer amount of time for sediments to accumulate.
What is occurring at hydrothermal events in terms of water exchange? Answer: Cold ocean water is seeping through fissures in the crust. When the water comes close to the magma chamber, it is warmed, then rises and boils out of the fissures near the center of the rift zone
What is the continental rise? Where is it found? Answer: It is formed by the accumulation of sediments at the base of the continental slope and only occurs as passive margins
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