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Where is mid ocean rift, tokelau?

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  1. Since you asked about Tokelau as well, I think you may be  asking about the Pacific Ocean Trench.

    The mid ocean rift usually refers to the rift down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.  It is at the juncture of the North American and Eurasian plates, and runs on down around the southern tip of Africa.

    The deepest ocean area is the Marianas Trench or Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean.  It is also at the juncture of two tectonic plates, the pacific and Phillipine Plates.  This is not usually called the mid ocean rift.  

    As with oceanic-continental convergence, when two oceanic plates converge, one is usually subducted under the other, and in the process a trench is formed. The Marianas Trench (paralleling the Mariana Islands), for example, marks where the fast-moving Pacific Plate converges against the slower moving Philippine Plate. The Challenger Deep, at the southern end of the Marianas Trench, plunges deeper into the Earth's interior (nearly 11,000 m) than Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain, rises above sea level (about 8,854 m).  

    Tokelau (pronounced /ˈtoʊkəlaʊ/) is a territory of New Zealand that consists of three tropical coral atolls in the South Pacific Ocean. The United Nations General Assembly designated Tokelau a Non-Self-Governing Territory.

    Until 1976 the official name was Tokelau Islands. Tokelau is sometimes referred to by Westerners by the older, colonial name of The Union Islands.


  2. It is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

  3. Mid Atlantic Ridge? Running fron north to south in a jagged manner.

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