The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mid-ocean ridge (a divergent or constructive plate boundary) located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the... 12 KB (1,412 words) - 11:01, 24 March 2024 |
Seafloor spreading (redirect from Ocean floor spreading) that occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge. Earlier theories... 28 KB (4,190 words) - 22:03, 17 April 2024 |
that occurs at mid-ocean ridges as the result of the rigid lithosphere sliding down the hot, raised asthenosphere below mid-ocean ridges. Although it is... 14 KB (1,593 words) - 10:05, 15 April 2024 |
Outline of plate tectonics (section Oceanic ridges) Earth's surface Mid-ocean ridge, also known as Oceanic ridge – Basaltic underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonic spreading Oceanic trench – Long... 14 KB (4,367 words) - 12:15, 30 October 2023 |
Divergent boundary (redirect from Oceanic rift) Most active divergent plate boundaries occur between oceanic plates and exist as mid-oceanic ridges. Current research indicates that complex convection... 6 KB (761 words) - 07:57, 14 March 2024 |
Marine geology (section Mid-ocean ridge system) was that the deepest part of the ocean was not in the middle. These were some of the first records of the mid-ocean ridge system.[citation needed] Prior... 57 KB (6,327 words) - 03:02, 19 April 2024 |
Seabed (redirect from Ocean floor) slope.[citation needed] The mid-ocean ridge, as its name implies, is a mountainous rise through the middle of all the oceans, between the continents. Typically... 26 KB (4,315 words) - 23:53, 19 April 2024 |
Marine sediment (redirect from Ocean sediment) volcanoes and meteorite debris. Except within a few kilometres of a mid-ocean ridge, where the volcanic rock is still relatively young, most parts of the... 109 KB (12,371 words) - 12:10, 15 January 2024 |
The British Mid-Ocean Ridge Initiative (the BRIDGE Programme) was a multidisciplinary scientific investigation of the creation of the Earth’s crust in... 21 KB (2,791 words) - 16:39, 16 January 2024 |
Abyssal plain (category Coastal and oceanic landforms) 700 ft). Lying generally between the foot of a continental rise and a mid-ocean ridge, abyssal plains cover more than 50% of the Earth's surface. They are... 80 KB (9,035 words) - 23:59, 12 April 2024 |
Undersea mountain range (category Coastal and oceanic landforms) specifically under the surface of an ocean. If originated from current tectonic forces, they are often referred to as a mid-ocean ridge. In contrast, if formed by... 1 KB (119 words) - 00:52, 23 May 2023 |
The Central Indian Ridge (CIR) is a north–south-trending mid-ocean ridge in the western Indian Ocean. The morphology of the CIR is characteristic of slow... 7 KB (790 words) - 21:50, 9 July 2022 |
linear feature on the ocean floor—often hundreds, even thousands of kilometers long—resulting from the action of offset mid-ocean ridge axis segments. They... 9 KB (992 words) - 18:38, 4 January 2024 |
Magmatism (section Mid-ocean ridges) at convergent plate boundaries while basaltic magmatism is found at mid-ocean ridges during sea-floor spreading at divergent plate boundaries. On Earth... 9 KB (1,035 words) - 17:40, 30 January 2024 |
Basalt (redirect from Basalt ridge) variety of tectonic settings. These include continental rift zones, at mid-ocean ridges, above hotspots, and in back-arc basins. Basalt is also produced in... 68 KB (7,707 words) - 23:14, 28 February 2024 |
Every ocean basin has a mid-ocean ridge, which creates a long mountain range beneath the ocean. Together they form the global mid-oceanic ridge system... 128 KB (17,470 words) - 06:23, 16 April 2024 |
most volcanoes are found underwater. For example, a mid-ocean ridge, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates... 88 KB (9,880 words) - 11:12, 19 April 2024 |
the island of Cyprus represents a Late Cretaceous spreading axis (mid-ocean ridge) that has since been uplifted due to its positioning on the overriding... 12 KB (1,509 words) - 11:00, 29 November 2023 |
Wireless, a multinational communication company Southwest Indian Ridge, a mid-ocean ridge between Africa and Antarctica Svir (disambiguation) This disambiguation... 300 bytes (64 words) - 19:14, 16 July 2022 |
Lithosphere (redirect from Oceanic lithosphere) found at mid-ocean ridges, is no thicker than the crust, but oceanic lithosphere thickens as it ages and moves away from the mid-ocean ridge. The oldest... 16 KB (1,881 words) - 00:04, 31 January 2024 |
is the most important source of magma on Earth. It is the source of mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB) and of some magmas that erupted above subduction zones... 18 KB (2,088 words) - 01:10, 10 April 2024 |
Pangaea Proxima (redirect from Indo-Atlantic Ocean) of the Atlantic mid-ocean ridge followed by subduction destroying the Atlantic and Indian basin, causing the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to close, bringing... 16 KB (1,855 words) - 01:38, 23 April 2024 |
Hydrothermal vent (redirect from Ocean vent) are moving apart at mid-ocean ridges, ocean basins, and hotspots. The dispersal of hydrothermal fluids throughout the global ocean at active vent sites... 114 KB (13,375 words) - 17:08, 19 April 2024 |