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You would expect to find a fold mountain range at a convergent or collision boundary rather than at a divergent boundary such as a mid ocean ridge.
If one was measuring the temperatures of rocks on the seafloor, the hottest rocks would be located nearest to a mid ocean ridge. This is the location where the hot magma from the asthenosphere rises and is situated on either side of the ridge. The farther away the seafloor is from the central area of heat, the colder it is. This pattern is identical on both sides of a mid ocean ridge. However, if rocks are located near subduction zones or hot spots, they too would be hotter than the majority of the seafloor.
The Mid-Ocean Ridge Is From The Mantle.
the boundary ofthemid ocean ridge is a divergent boundary
Strips of ocean-floor basalt record the polarity of earth's magnetic field at the time the rock formed. These strips form a pattern that is the same on both sides of the mid-ocean ridge. the pattern shows that ocean floor forms along mid-ocean ridges and then moves away from the ridge.
The Mid Ocean Ridge would have magnetic striping. As the seafloor expands, new oceanic crust is spread in either direction. As this process continues over many years, the magnetic poles may switch, altering the magnetism in the new crust. The poles will switch back and forth, producing the magnetic striping that is easily discernible when examining the Mid Ocean Ridge and surrounding seafloor.
The pattern of magnetic striping on one side of the ridge was a mirror image of the striping on the other side of the ridge, indicating that the plates were moving equally in opposite directions, giving a plausible explanation for continental drift theory. Before this discovery, no evidence of a mechanism for plate tectonics existed. It was obvious after this discovery, that new crust was being created at the ridges.
You would expect to find a fold mountain range at a convergent or collision boundary rather than at a divergent boundary such as a mid ocean ridge.
The polarities were mirror images on either side of the mid-ocean ridge.
Of course! Mountain ranges can be underwater! Right?...
If one was measuring the temperatures of rocks on the seafloor, the hottest rocks would be located nearest to a mid ocean ridge. This is the location where the hot magma from the asthenosphere rises and is situated on either side of the ridge. The farther away the seafloor is from the central area of heat, the colder it is. This pattern is identical on both sides of a mid ocean ridge. However, if rocks are located near subduction zones or hot spots, they too would be hotter than the majority of the seafloor.
Of course! Mountain ranges can be underwater! Right?...
Of course! Mountain ranges can be underwater! Right?...
Of course! Mountain ranges can be underwater! Right?...
No. A mid-ocean ridges is a divergent boundary. You find folded mountain at convergent plate boundaries.
Transform and normal faults form along mid-ocean ridges such as the Mid-Atlantic ridge.
An ocean ridge is a line of mountains in middle of the ocean under the level of water.