Midocean ridges are areas where continents broke apart. Midocean ridges are closest to the landmasses in younger oceans. One example where a midocean ridge intersected a landmass is the Arabian sea, which was formed by the pulling apart of the Arabian Peninsula and Africa.
At transform faults or transform zones.
One of the midocean ridges is, but others are in other oceans, seas, and bays.
Older, as it moves away from the mid-ocean ridge the sediment gets thicker and older
(1)midocean spreading ridges, (2) subduction zones, and (3) transform faults.Normal fault, Reverse fault, and strike-slip fault
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The midocean ridges are the spreading centers where the plates are moving apart. The seamounts are extinct volcanos produced as the plate passed over a mantle hotspot.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is found on the ocean floor in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
Abyssal plains cover about 50% of the surface area on Earth and usually positioned between continents and midocean ridges. They are typically at least 3000m deep and represent some of the flatest, smoothest, and least explored landscapes on Earth.
Directly along active oceanic ridges, such as the mid-oceanic ridge in the Atlantic (which Iceland straddles) and on active volcanoes, such as Hawaii. When lava from volcanoes such as Hawaii and the mostly undersea volcanoes of mid-oceanic ridges cools, it solidifies into brand new rock.
two tectonic plates meet usually at mid ocean ridges (eg Iceland) and at destructive plate boundaries (eg Japan).
At midocean ridges.At underocianic slip faults.