What is the mid ocean ridge?

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What is the mid ocean ridge?

Answer 1

The Mid Atlantic Ridge.  It resembles a mountain chain, or ridge, on the floor in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Answer 2

often refers to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the plates that "meet" in the mid-Atlantic are pulling apart, and causing an upwelling of magma and a ridge of new crust and islands.

but it can refer to any of the areas where two plates are moving away from each other.

http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/g...

http://www.ocean.udel.edu/extreme2001/mi...

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/ridge.h...

http://www.platetectonics.com/oceanfloor...

hope this helps!

Answer 3

A place in any ocean that is at the meeting edges of Teutonic plates.

These places are not flat but are rough, mountainous, and constantly changing.

Mid-ocean ridges can easily be imagined as underwater mountain ranges and valleys.