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Two tectonic plates move apart, allowing for geologic activity along the boundary that slowly build a ridgeline along the bottom of the ocean.
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Where do midocean ridges intersect the landmasses?
Midocean ridges are areas where continents broke apart. Midocean ridges are closest to the landmasses in younger oceans. One example where a midocean ridge intersected a landmass is the Arabian sea, which was formed by the pulling apart of the Arabian Peninsula and Africa.
Is the Mid-Oceanic Ridge in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?
One of the midocean ridges is, but others are in other oceans, seas, and bays.
What is located in midocean ridges?
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is found on the ocean floor in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
Where do oceanic plates touch on earth?
At midocean ridges.At underocianic slip faults.
What is a oceanic ridges?
a ridge in the ocean
Where do midocean ridges intersect the landmasses?
Midocean ridges are areas where continents broke apart. Midocean ridges are closest to the landmasses in younger oceans. One example where a midocean ridge intersected a landmass is the Arabian sea, which was formed by the pulling apart of the Arabian Peninsula and Africa.
Where are the midocean ridges offset the most by faults?
At transform faults or transform zones.
Is the Mid-Oceanic Ridge in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?
One of the midocean ridges is, but others are in other oceans, seas, and bays.
Do Ocean sediments become younger or older away from midocean ridges?
Older, as it moves away from the mid-ocean ridge the sediment gets thicker and older
What are the 3 type of earthquakes?
(1)midocean spreading ridges, (2) subduction zones, and (3) transform faults.Normal fault, Reverse fault, and strike-slip fault
When was MidOcean Partners created?
MidOcean Partners was created in 2003.
What are the differences between ocean ridge and seamount?
The midocean ridges are the spreading centers where the plates are moving apart. The seamounts are extinct volcanos produced as the plate passed over a mantle hotspot.
What is located in midocean ridges?
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is found on the ocean floor in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
What is special about an abyssal plain?
Abyssal plains cover about 50% of the surface area on Earth and usually positioned between continents and midocean ridges. They are typically at least 3000m deep and represent some of the flatest, smoothest, and least explored landscapes on Earth.
Where do oceanic plates touch on earth?
At midocean ridges.At underocianic slip faults.
What is the hypothesis that continents have moved slowly away from there current locations?
It was called "Continental Drift" and was promptly (and rightly) dismissed as it proposed that the Continents were somehow plowing through the solid rock of the Oceanic crust, like ships through the liquid water of the ocean. It took observations made by the US Navy during the 1950s (and kept classified secrets for many years), including volcanic activity of the midocean ridges, magnetic reversals in the Oceanic crust that were symmetric about the midocean ridges, and very deep ocean trenches. These showed that large moving plates existed in the earth's crust that transported both the Continents and sections of Oceanic crust in various directions. Ultimately this provided a workable mechanism that replaced the rejected "Continental Drift" hypothesis with the Theory of Plate Tectonics.
What is the youngest part of earth's crust?
The youngest parts of the Earth's crust are the midocean rifts. It is approximately 1,500 km wide, 1 to 3 km high, and over 84,000 km long.
