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Are mid-ocean ridges located mostly along coastlines?
No, mid-ocean ridges are not located mostly along coastlines. Mid-ocean ridges are underwater mountain ranges that form where tectonic plates are pulling apart. They are located in the middle of the ocean and can extend for thousands of kilometers.
What was Marie Tharp's contribution to plate tectonics?
Marie Tharp's contribution to tectonic plates is the first sea floor map she made. it showed the mid-ocean ridges which help form the discovery of the plates.
What cause ocean ridges to form?
earths crust causes it
What plates caused mtfuji to form?
tectonic plates
What do tectonic plates form when they converge?
Convergent tectonic plates are plates that are moving toward each other.
Sets of deep cracks that form between two tectonic plates that are pulling away from each other are known as what?
Mid-ocean ridges
Underwater mountains chains that forms where two tectonic plates are pulling are called?
Underwater mountain chains that form where two tectonic plates are pulling apart are called mid ocean ridges. The largest is the Mid Atlantic Ridge.
Are mid-ocean ridges located mostly along coastlines?
No, mid-ocean ridges are not located mostly along coastlines. Mid-ocean ridges are underwater mountain ranges that form where tectonic plates are pulling apart. They are located in the middle of the ocean and can extend for thousands of kilometers.
What form a mid ocean ridge?
tectonic plates
What was Marie Tharp's contribution to plate tectonics?
Marie Tharp's contribution to tectonic plates is the first sea floor map she made. it showed the mid-ocean ridges which help form the discovery of the plates.
Hardens to form new rock at mid-ocean ridges?
Sea- Floor Spreading molten material erupts through the valley that runs along the center of some mid-ocean ridges. This material hardens to form the rock of the ocean floor. Mid-ocean ridges an undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced.
What cause ocean ridges to form?
earths crust causes it
Do plates pull apart in the middle of the Atlantic ocean?
Tectonic plates do pull apart in the middle of the ocean. These divergent plates form what is known as the Mid-Atlantic ridge.
Where can ignoeus rock be found?
Igneous rocks form only in certain places. Fractionation occurs mostly where tectonic plates are either moving apart at mid ocean ridges or pushing together at subduction zones.
Im the gap that forms as tectonic plates move apart?
Oceanic trenches are the gaps which form when the tectonic plates move apart. They are the very deepest parts of the ocean.
Which occurs at a transform boundary?
earthquakes occur where there are transformed boundaries.
Divergent plates move from each other This causes to form as well as mid-ocean ridges?
away, rifts
