| The following year, geophysicist Robert S. Dietz named the phenomenon seafloor spreading. |
| East-northeast seafloor spreading in Labrador Sea began in Late Cretaceous time but changed to north-northeast in the Early Eocene. |
| It is clear from aeromagnetic and seismic data that the Eurasia Basin was formed by seafloor spreading along the axis of the Nansen-Gakkel Ridge. |
| Under normal conditions, coral growth can easily keep up with sinking due to seafloor spreading. |
| This all-encompassing theory grew out of observations and ideas about continental drift and seafloor spreading. |
| A high heat flow, which is associated with the extrusion of magma and with seafloor spreading, exists in the rift zone. |
