What Is a Spreading Center

spreading centre, in oceanography and geology, the linear boundary between two diverging lithospheric plates on the ocean floor. … Spreading centres are found at the crests of oceanic ridges.

What is another name for spreading center?

The oceanic spreading center, also known as the midocean ridge, is an underwater mountainous feature lying between the two lithospheric plates, through which new magma material being continuously spread out and lead to growth of the lithospheric plates.

What is a name of one spreading center?

The most famous spreading center is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, but there are many others. California has a small spreading center located in the Brawley Seismic Zone of Imperial County, the northern-most spreading center of the East Pacific Rise.