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North Atlantic Oscillation
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What prominent sea floor feature is found in the central Atlantic ocean?
The prominent sea floor feature found in the central Atlantic ocean is called the Mid Atlantic Ridge.
The large mountain range found in the Atlantic ocean is called the?
The large mountain range found on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean is called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge reaches a maximum width of about 860 nautical miles.
Where are the youngest rocks in the Atlantic ocean?
At the mid-atlantic ridge, where the ocean floor is spreading.
What is happening to the floor of the Atlantic ocean due to movement of the plates under the ocean?
Mid-Atlantic Spreading, which leads to increase in the length of the Atlantic oceans floor.
Why is the Atlantic Ocean is spreading?
The oceanic crust of the Atlantic Ocean floor is attached to the continental crust of the continents around the ocean. So as the Atlantic's Ocean floor spreads, the continents along its edges also move. Over time, the whole ocean gets wider.
What happens at the mid-atlantic ridge?
Sea floor spreading
What is the mountain range rising above the ocean floor of the Atlantic ocean is known as the?
That would be the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Why is the Atlantic ocean called the Atlantic?
. . .because they already have a Pacific Ocean.
What seas surround Brazil?
The ocean that surrounds Brazil is the Atlantic Ocean, It is also called South Atlantic
Was th titanic found on the Atlantic ocean floor?
yes
How does the Mid Atlantic Ridge affect the Atlantic Ocean?
The tectonic plates are separating and growing more ocean floor (seafloor spreading).
5 major features of the ocean floor?
Pizza! Atlantic ocean pacific ocean arctic ocean indian ocean southern ocean
