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地球的海洋盆地

地球海底总是雕刻与我们今天所看到的许多地质特征,或者是在某种程度上平面和无聊的火星是今天好吗?

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>地球海底总是雕刻与我们今天所看到的许多地质特征?绝对不是。海底板块构造在哪里开始和结束。海底非常动态和地球的年龄相比是非常年轻的。大部分的海底还不到2亿岁。非常古老的海洋地壳在地中海,这是只有约2.7亿岁。相比微不足道的4.5到46亿年地球已存在。海洋地壳形成在大洋中脊和消失在俯冲带。这是什么使海洋动态地质条件。没有相应的大陆地壳的过程。 Continental crust is in general quite old compared to oceanic crust. Depicted below is a map from NOAA that portrays the age of the oceanic crust. Note how the mid-oceanic ridge plays a dominant role. ![](https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/images/WorldCrustalAge.jpg) <br> **Update** The sea floor has not always been carved with the numerous geological features that we see today. In the article ["Intermittent plate tectonics?" *Science* 319.5859 (2008)](http://www.sciencemag.org/content/319/5859/85), Paul Silver and Mark Behn show that plate tectonics has come to a temporary standstill at times in the Earth's past. The deep ocean trenches that separate two continental plates on a collision course with one another disappear when those plates do collide. When this happened globally (e.g., the formation of a single supercontinent), the dominant slab-pull mechanism faltered, and that in turn shut down the mechanisms that form the mid-oceanic ridges. The mid-oceanic ridges slowly collapsed under their own weight. The end result was an ocean floor devoid of features. This apparently happened with the formation of Pangea. The collapse of the mid-oceanic ridges resulted in a vastly reduced sea level. Sea level at the end of the Permian / start of the Triassic was 300 to 400 meters below the present day sea level. **Ocean floor features** The features of the ocean floor include - The abyssal plain. The vast majority of the ocean floor comprises the deep, flat, and featureless abyssal plain. The abyssal plain is one of the two features of the ocean floor that has been present since shortly after the continents and oceans first formed. - Continental margins. The other ever-present feature of the ocean floor is the continental margins. Continental crust is considerably less dense and considerably thicker than is the oceanic crust that underlies most of the ocean floor. This difference in density and thickness is why the Earth has continents. The transition from oceanic crust to continental crust is rather sharp; the continental slope marks the boundary between the two. The continental shelf is submerged continental crust between the continent and the continental rise. Oftentimes runoff debris from the continent gets deposited at the base of the continental slope; this is the continental rise. The continental shelf, continental slope, and continental rise are collectively called the continental margin. - Subduction zones. Subduction zones occur at convergent boundaries between an oceanic plate collides and another plate. The common characteristic of subduction zones is a deep oceanic trench. The deepest parts of the oceans are at subduction zones. Subduction zones are oftentimes associated with island arcs, typically volcanic. - The mid-oceanic ridge. Long hidden from humankind, this is by far the longest mountain chain in the world. The mid-oceanic ridge is the deep red areas in the above map. This is where new oceanic crust is created. - "Hotspot" volcanos and other oddities. The Hawaiian islands, the Ninety-East Ridge, and other oddities well removed from plate boundaries -- what explains these? A hypothesis was raised in 1963, that these were caused by "mantle plumes". This was widely accepted for a while, but is losing favor. Whether mantle plumes exist remains one of the most hotly contested topics in geology today. Per Silver and Behn, and many subsequent authors, subduction zones and the mid-oceanic ridges are not ever-present features. What motivated Silver and Behn was that prior to India's collision into Asia, there used to be a sizable subduction zone between the Indian and Eurasian plates. That subduction zone has been replaced by the Himalaya. No new subduction zone has appeared in the last 50 million years to take place of that lost subduction zone. Supercontinents assemble by subduction followed by continental collision. It stood to reason to Silver and Behn (and many others) that the assembly of a supercontinent would be marked by drastically reduced subduction and mid-ocean spreading. During those periods of reduced plate tectonics, the deep ocean trenches would close and the mid-oceanic ridges would collapse under their own weight.

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\ begingroup美元这个答案也是正确的,但可能不是OP要求什么。我喜欢这句话“海底板块构造在哪里开始和结束的。好把。 \ endgroup美元
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2015年3月29日,海啸
\ begingroup美元当然侵蚀渠道仍将存在,即使处于停滞状态是板块构造? \ endgroup美元
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2015年7月17日23:20

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