A mid-ocean ridge or mid-oceanic ridge is an underwater mountain range, formed by plate tectonics. This uplifting of the ocean floor occurs when convection currents rise in the mantle beneath the ...

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The zig zagging mid-ocean ridge (yes, it deserves a catchier, more majestic name) zig zags around the globe for more than 40,000 miles, making it longer than Earth’s circumference.

The presence of a mid-ocean ridge doesn’t exaggerate biomass and biodiversity at all in the North Atlantic–not even close, in fact. This is the cool result from the ECOMAR project , a large multi-year ...

The earthquake distribution on ultraslow mid-ocean ridges differs fundamentally from other spreading zones. Water circulating at a depth of up to 15 kilometres leads to the formation of rock that ...

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) is a mostly underwater mountain range in the Atlantic Ocean that runs from 87°N -about 333km south of the North Pole- to subantarctic Bourvet island at 54°S. The MAR is ...

They allow the oceanic crust to spread out as it moves away from the mid-ocean ridge, a bit like the way a row of books on a bookshelf can tilt to eat up the space left by a few missing books.

Hot mantle drives elevation, volcanism along mid-ocean ridges Date: April 3, 2014 Source: Brown University Summary: Using data from seismic waves, scientists have shown that temperature deep in ...

The structure and accretion modes of two end-member types of oceanic lithosphere are described using a detailed seismicity survey along 390 kilometres of an ultraslow ridge axis, indicating deeper ...

Ken Sims, a professor in UW’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, recently received a $325,841 National Science Foundation grant to look at understanding the processes and timescales of basalt ...