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North American Plate, South American Plate, African Plate, Eurasian Plate.
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What tectonic plates is surtsey on?
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Is Atlantic ocean is expanding?
Because the tectonic plates which it sits upon are moving apart at the mid-atlantic ridge.
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.
What process forms the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
Spreading of tectonic plates - which fresh magma fills in.
What process forms the mid Atlantic ridge?
Spreading of tectonic plates - which fresh magma fills in.
How does the Mid Atlantic Ridge affect the Atlantic Ocean?
The tectonic plates are separating and growing more ocean floor (seafloor spreading).
What is the north Atlantic ridge?
The Mid-Atlantic Range is an underwater mountain range of the Atlantic Ocean and Artic Ocean. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is part of the global mid-oceanic ridge system; the ridge is the mountain range where tectonic plates are moving apart along a boundary as magma rises from the Earth's mantel. This magma then heats up and the heat cause the curst on the rifts expand creating the ridges. As the tectonic plates keep moving apart, the Atlantic ridge keeps growing at this point at the rate of 5-10centimeters per year. It's the Nothern third of the Mid-Atlantic ridge Plankey1995 JF
A mid-ocean ridge forms along what plates?
tectonic plates
Are the plates at both sides of Mid-Atlantic Ridge continental or oceanic?
Plates on either side of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge are oceanic plates.
What major plates correspond with the mid-Atlantic Ridge?
The North American and Eurasian Plates in the North Atlantic and the South American and African Plates in the South Atlantic border the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
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.
What form a mid ocean ridge?
tectonic plates
