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Are the plates at both sides of Mid-Atlantic Ridge continental or oceanic?
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Plates on either side of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge are oceanic plates.
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Where is oceanic and continental plates?
at the mid-ocean ridge
What is the midatlantic ridge?
The Mid-Atlanic Ridge is the divergent boundary that is responsible for seafloor spreading. Consisting mostly of divergent boundaries, with transform faults as well, this is the site where new oceanic crust is added, increasing the size of the ocean. This location is dotted with underwater volcanoes as igneous basaltic magma is added to fill in the gap left as the oceanic plates drift away.
What is the difference between a mid ocean ridge and a rift?
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What are divergent boundaries?
Divergent boundaries are areas where continental or oceanic plates are moving away from each other and creating new crust. Examples would be the Mid-Oceanic Ridge and the East African Rift Zone.
What type of plate is with a mid ocean ridge?
Diverging oceanic plates.
Where do two oceanic plates pull apart?
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
What the asthenosphere look like after the oceanic plates push upwards?
Ridge
What geologic feature results when divergence occures between two oceanic plates?
a mid oceanic ridge
What land form is created by tectonic plates crashing together?
this depends on the two plates that collide. Ocean plates are much heavier than continental plates. If an ocean and continental plate collide, the ocean plate sinks underneath and creates a trench. If two ocean plates or two continental plate collide, it creates a mountain range/ oceanic ridge depending on the type.
Why continental rock is younger than oceanic rock?
The Oceanic Plates are younger than the continental because they are "recycled"; think of the oceanic ridges, such as the mid Atlantic oceanic ridge, that is where a hot spot under diverging plates (plates moving apart) push magma up, causing new young ocean floor to spread from this spot, and pushing the old floor into trenches and other continents, being destroyed. Another point to remember is that the ocean crust is thicker the farther away from the ridge; this is because it has had more time to build itself up compared to the more thin young crust.
What were the folding and faulting found in rocks of the blue ridge mountains created by?
Collisions Of Continental Plates
What plates correspond to the midatlantic ridge?
it corresponds to the south american, african, north american, and eurasian plates
