Since it is located at a divergent or lateral plate boundary, magma from the mantle flows out to the Earth's surface through a crack found on the Earth's crust. The magma cools and solidifies upon reaching the Earth's surface, forming a new landform made of magma or igneous rocks( derived from solidified magma) such as a volcano, or sometimes, a volcanic island, such as Hawaii. This usually occurs at ocean basins.
To correct the previous answer, Hawaii is not actually on a mid-ocean ridge, it is an island chain formed by a hotspot under a moving plate (you can tell because the oldest volcanoes are at one end and youngest at the other).
Volcanoes formed by the Pacific MOR tend not to reach the surface. Better examples are in the Atlantic: Iceland, the Azores, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha. Best example of what exactly is happening at the MOR is Bermuda, which was originally formed on the Atlantic MOR and has been pushed so far sideways as more crust formed in the centre, it is now far away from the active MOR.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge comes up above the surface of the water to form the island Iceland.
Yes, a large trench known as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge runs down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean basin. This underwater mountain range is where tectonic plates are moving apart, causing new oceanic crust to form in the process.
Underwater eruptions cause tsunamis and cause lava to form and underwater ridge.
The mantle's convection currents move in the mantle in the form of magma which creates the mid-ocean ridge. Mid-ocean ridges are found in every ocean in the world and when the currents erupt as lava the eventually cool and create a crust.
A mountain ridge.
cuz rocks come up from the ridge and create land by the ridge
An arete is a mountain ridge that is steep sided and narrow along the ridge.
Converging
tectonic plates
The North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate separate to form the North Atlantic Ridge. This ridge is a divergent boundary where the two plates are moving away from each other, creating new oceanic crust in the process.
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Ocean Ridge
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A divergent plate boundary
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge comes up above the surface of the water to form the island Iceland.
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