a ridge in the ocean
mountainous topography
Mid-ocean ridges and seafloor spreading are characteristics of oceanic diverging plates, plates that are moving away from each other.
No. Mid oceanic ridges are the places where new oceanic crust are forming.
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a ridge in the ocean
a ridge in the ocean
The youngest parts of the Earth's crust are found in the oceanic crust. This crust is continuously being created at the mid-oceanic ridges.
mountainous topography
New oceanic crust is created at the mid-oceanic ridges, a divergent plate boundary.
At the oceanic ridges the age of igneous basalt rocks is approximately zero (as that is where they formed) and the rocks get older the farther away. The ages of sedimentary and metamorphic rocks does not correlate reliably with distance from the oceanic ridges like the ages of igneous rocks, because they can form anywhere not mainly at oceanic ridges. Igneous granite rocks are generally formed around continental volcanos not oceanic ridges.
Mid-ocean ridges and seafloor spreading are characteristics of oceanic diverging plates, plates that are moving away from each other.
Ridges of buoyant oceanic crust form at diverging oceanic plate boundaries.
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oceanic lithosphere sinks at subduction zones but not at mid ocean ridges because at subduction zones the oceanic lithosphere is subducted, or sinks, under another plate. Oceanic Lithosphere sinks at subduction zones which are usually at convergent boundaries, but at mid-ocean ridges the plates are actually separating not coming together
The youngest oceanic crust can be found near the mid-ocean ridges.
No. Mid oceanic ridges are the places where new oceanic crust are forming.