_Seafloor Spreading_
1. Hot, molten rock is forced upward toward the seafloor at a mid-ocean ridge.
2. Molten rock pushes sideways in both directions as it rises, moving the mantle with it.
3. Molten rock flows onto the seafloor and hardens as it cools.
4. New seafloor moves away from the ridge, cools, becomes denser, and sinks.
- Maylin
_ Source_ Glencoe Textbook
Mid ocean ridges are associated with divergent boundaries in plate tectonics and the formation of new oceanic crust.
Mid- ocean ridges are also referred to as underwater mountain ridges. This is because they are formed the same way.
Gakkel Mid ocean ridge which is located in the artic ocean
Divergent boundaries
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.
At the mid-ocean ridges.
It is true that mid-ocean ridges are underwater mountain ranges. These ridges are where the lithosphere is moving apart and new oceanic crust is being formed.
New lithosphere is commonly formed at mid-ocean ridges, hot spots, and where there are active volcanoes.
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.
At transform faults or transform zones.
One of the midocean ridges is, but others are in other oceans, seas, and bays.
Older, as it moves away from the mid-ocean ridge the sediment gets thicker and older
(1)midocean spreading ridges, (2) subduction zones, and (3) transform faults.Normal fault, Reverse fault, and strike-slip fault
Divergent boundaries form ocean ridges.
MidOcean Partners was created in 2003.
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.
the wind ;)
Divergent boundaries
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is found on the ocean floor in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
It was formed when there was linear gap formed below at the ocean floor... So when the hot magma came out from it, it began to cool and solidify forming mid atlantic ridges