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    A mid-ocean ridge (MOR) is a seafloor mountain system formed by plate tectonics. It typically has a depth of about 2,600 meters (8,500 ft) and rises about...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Thumbnail for Gakkel Ridge
    The Gakkel Ridge (formerly known as the Nansen Cordillera and Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge) is a mid-oceanic ridge, a divergent tectonic plate boundary between...
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  • Thumbnail for Seafloor 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...
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    Most active divergent plate boundaries occur between oceanic plates and exist as mid-oceanic ridges. Current research indicates that complex convection...
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  • 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...
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  • Thumbnail for Oceanic crust
    two-thirds of oceanic crust volume with almost 5 km thickness. The most voluminous volcanic rocks of the ocean floor are the mid-oceanic ridge basalts, which...
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    active transform faulting associated with a mid-ocean ridge. Classic fracture zones remain significant ocean floor features with usually different aged...
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    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...
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    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...
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    it is formed at mid-ocean ridges and spreads outwards, its thickness is therefore a function of its distance from the mid-ocean ridge where it was formed...
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  • Thumbnail for British Mid-Ocean Ridge Initiative
    The British Mid-Ocean Ridge Initiative (the BRIDGE Programme) was a multidisciplinary scientific investigation of the creation of the Earth's crust in...
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    at convergent plate boundaries while basaltic magmatism is found at mid-ocean ridges during sea-floor spreading at divergent plate boundaries. On Earth...
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    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...
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    of oceanic basins (the other elements being an elevated mid-ocean ridge and flanking abyssal hills). In addition to these elements, active oceanic basins...
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  • Carlsberg Ridge – Tectonic plate ridge Southeast Indian Ridge – Mid-ocean ridge in the southern Indian Ocean Southwest Indian Ridge – A mid-ocean ridge on the...
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  • 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...
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    supervolcano located directly on a mid-ocean ridge. Piskarev, Alexey; Elkina, Daria (10 April 2017). "Giant caldera in the Arctic Ocean: Evidence of the catastrophic...
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    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...
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  • Thumbnail for Oceanic core complex
    An oceanic core complex, or megamullion, is a seabed geologic feature that forms a long ridge perpendicular to a mid-ocean ridge. It contains smooth domes...
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  • Thumbnail for Central Indian Ridge
    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Thumbnail for Pangaea Proxima
    of the Atlantic mid-ocean ridge followed by subduction destroying the Atlantic and Indian basin, causing the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to close, bringing...
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    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...
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  • Thumbnail for 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...
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    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...
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    Basalt (redirect from Basalt ridge)
    position along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and the compositions also define different ranges in different ocean basins. Mid-ocean ridge basalts have been subdivided...
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  • Wireless, a multinational communication company Southwest Indian Ridge, a mid-ocean ridge between Africa and Antarctica Svir (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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  • Thumbnail for Asthenosphere
    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...
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