Mid atlantic ridge

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a submarine ridge located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, that wraps around the globe for more than 65,000 ...

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The mid-Atlantic ridge that is slowly pushing North America away from Europe. The mid-Atlantic ridge lies mostly in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and is the classic example of a divergent plate boundary. This tells us that a couple of large mantel plumes are at work below the Earth's surface and these are gradually pulling the crust apart. It is where the ancient content of Pangea used to be, prior to being torn apart by this divergent zone. The mid-Atlantic ridge is visible on the…

Maps Expose Unseen Details of the Atlantic Ocean Floor. Credit: National Geographic Maps Unseen Details of Seafloor Exposed in Th...

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Divergent (Mid-Atlantic ridge, The Rift Valley), Convergent (The Andes, The Himalayas) and Transform (San Andreas fault, Dead Sea Transform). There are some sub-varieties but these are the main ones. Which makes natural sense, so there’s no remembering to do, when you have two contacting plates - they can either be pushing together, pulling apart or rubbing past each other. Incidentally, the idea that the giant continents move around all the time, enough to pull apart South America and…

Maps Expose Unseen Details of the Atlantic Ocean Floor. Credit: National Geographic Maps Unseen Details of Seafloor Exposed in Th...

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