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What plates correspond to the midatlantic ridge?
it corresponds to the south american, african, north american, and eurasian plates
What is Longest topographic feature on earths surface?
Oceanic Ridge
Plates and the rocks that compose them are moving apart at these places?
This is happening at divergent plate boundaries, where tectonic plates are moving away from each other. This movement is caused by the upwelling of magma from the mantle, which creates new crust as it solidifies. Examples of divergent plate boundaries include the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the East Pacific Rise.
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.
What type of boundary occurs most at mid ocean ridge?
The mid-ocean ridge is formed along a divergent or constructive plate boundary between two plates of oceanic crust. A classic example is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge where the Eurasian and African Plates are moving away from the North and South American Plates.
What plates correspond to the midatlantic ridge?
it corresponds to the south american, african, north american, and eurasian plates
What islands are in the middle of the Atlantic?
Iceland is a volcanic island on the midatlantic ridge, separating the North American Plate to the west from the European Plate to the east.
What is the midatlantic ridge?
The Mid-Atlanic Ridge is the divergent boundary that is responsible for seafloor spreading. Consisting mostly of divergent boundaries, with transform faults as well, this is the site where new oceanic crust is added, increasing the size of the ocean. This location is dotted with underwater volcanoes as igneous basaltic magma is added to fill in the gap left as the oceanic plates drift away.
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 underwater ridge has formed where the North and South American plates meet the African and Eurasia n plates?
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge
What are the chain of mountains that extend into earths oceans?
The Mid-Ocean Ridge is a chain of mountains that extends into Earth's oceans. It is a submerged mountain range that runs through the center of the ocean basins and is formed by tectonic plates spreading apart.
What rate are the plates moving at the mid Atlantic ridge?
The mid Atlantic Ridge plates are moving apart at approximately 2.5 to 3 centimeters per year.
What plates meet at the mid-atlantic ridge?
yes
Where is oceanic and continental plates?
at the mid-ocean ridge
What form a mid ocean ridge?
tectonic plates
What is the role of the mid ocean ridge in the movement of lithosphere plates?
To fill the gap of separating plates.
What is the role of the mid-ocean ridge in the movement of lithosphere plates?
To fill the gap of separating plates.
