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What results when divergence occurs in the oceanic lithosphere?
A Mid-Ocean-Ridge develops leading to volcanism and the creation of new oceanic crust.
What Is A Good Sentence For Mid-Ocean Ridge?
The Mid-Ocean Ridge Is From The Mantle.
What feature is found at a distance of 4100 kilometers on the ocean bottom?
Mid Ocean Ridge
Do most of the volcanoes of the mid-ocean ridge rise above the oceans surface?
False, Iceland is the only place in the world that a mid-ocean ridge, or a volcano from a mid-ocean ridge become subaerial.
Is the mid ocean ridge the location of the oldest ocean floor?
Actually the mid ocean ridge would be the location of some of the NEWEST ocean floor.
Where in relation to a mid ocean ridge would you find the oceanic lithosphere?
the bottom
Does the oceanic lithosphere get older or younger as you move to Mid Ocean ridge?
Younger. The mid-ocean ridge is formed from new material being thrust up from inside the Earth.
What results when divergence occurs in the oceanic lithosphere?
A Mid-Ocean-Ridge develops leading to volcanism and the creation of new oceanic crust.
Where in relation to a mid ocean ridge would you find the oldest oceanic lithosphere?
the bottom
What is the role of the mid-ocean ridge in the movement of lithosphere plates?
To fill the gap of separating plates.
What is the role of mid ocean ridge in the movement of the lithosphere plates?
To fill the gap of separating plates.
What is the role of the mid ocean ridge in the movement of lithosphere plates?
To fill the gap of separating plates.
What is the role the mid-ocean ridge in the movement of lithosphere plates?
To fill the gap of separating plates.
What causes the oceanic lithosphere to move away from the mid-ocean ridge?
it is caused by convection currents
What is the role of the mid ocean ridge in the movement lithosphere plates?
To fill the gap of separating plates.
What is an underwater mountain chain formed where new crust is created by seafloor spreading called?
The process of sea-floor spreading created the lithosphere under the Atlantic Ocean. As North America and South America moved away from Europe and Africa, the resulting crack was filled by mantle material, which cooled and formed new lithosphere. The process continues today. Molten mantle materials continually rise to fill the cracks formed as the plates move slowly apart from each other. This process creates an underwater mountain chain, known as a mid-ocean ridge, along the zone of newly forming lithosphere.
What happens to the ocean floor farther to the oceanic lithosphere is from a mid ocean ridge?
Magma rises and slidifies and creates a new crust.
