Spreading rates determine if the ridge is fast intermediate or slow.
Sea floor spreading geology definition.
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Spreading rate is the rate at which an ocean basin widens due to seafloor spreading.
Seafloor spreading occurs along mid ocean ridges large mountain ranges rising from the ocean floor.
In the theory of plate tectonics the process by which new oceanic crust is formed by the convective upwelling of magma at mid ocean ridges resulting in.