Teach the Controversy: Seafloor Spreading

By Kevin Zelnio, on July 22nd, 2010 8 comments   Geology   Seafloor Spreading  

My labmate came across this compelling illustration today searching Google Images for seafloor spreading illustrations.

Click on image for the original.

8 comments to Teach the Controversy: Seafloor Spreading

• Michael D. Barton, FCD

  July 22, 2010 at 15:35 · Reply

  Wait, isn’t that correct?

• Mike Haubrich, FCD

  July 22, 2010 at 16:35 · Reply

  No, Michael. One of the demons is actually female. This is a sexist conception.

• Chris Rowan

  July 22, 2010 at 17:09 · Reply

  To be fair, this hypothesis has more explanatory power than Expanding Earth models…

• Natalie

  July 22, 2010 at 17:40 · Reply

  Awesome. :D
  This reminds me of some Teach the Controversy shirts I’ve been eying for a while now.

• Michael Bok

  July 23, 2010 at 03:11 · Reply

  Makes sense

• Brian Rosen

  July 23, 2010 at 05:51 · Reply

  Not so sure about that guy paddling his hands and making eddy currents beneath the subduction zone. Somehow suggests plates get pulled down, whereas I thought that the plates sink as they move away from MORs (the hot breather on the right) because they get cooler and denser.

• Oil queen

  August 2, 2010 at 18:42 · Reply

  Great image, I would like to see more.

• hunn bunn :D

  November 1, 2012 at 18:24 · Reply

  freakkkkkks muchhh???