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The characteristic of the Mid-Ocean Ridge that does not describe it is "it is seen crossing the western edge of the North and South American continents." The Mid-Ocean Ridge is an underwater mountain range that runs along the bottom of the world's oceans, not along continental edges. It is also not seen since it is located underwater.
Midocean ridges are areas where continents broke apart. Midocean ridges are closest to the landmasses in younger oceans. One example where a midocean ridge intersected a landmass is the Arabian sea, which was formed by the pulling apart of the Arabian Peninsula and Africa.
One of the midocean ridges is, but others are in other oceans, seas, and bays.
friction - convection currents in the mantle drag the plates away from the hot rising zone below the ridgegravity - gravity pulls down on the cold dense plate being subducted under the continent, dragging the plate away from the ridge
Oceanic plates typically touch at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed as magma rises from the mantle and solidifies. Additionally, oceanic plates can also interact at subduction zones, where one plate is forced beneath another, leading to the formation of deep ocean trenches and volcanic activity.
The problem with continental drift was no mechanism could be found by which the continents could drift through the solid rock of the ocean seafloor. In the 1950s the US Navy found the evidence of alternating polarity magnetic stripes on the ocean seafloor that were symmetrical on opposite sides of the midocean ridges. But this information was kept classified until the late 1970s. When it was declassified and made available to geophysicists it became the proof that showed the continents were not drifting as Wegener proposed, but the earth's crust was divided into plates that dragged the continents along with them as they moved.
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Midocean ridges are areas where continents broke apart. Midocean ridges are closest to the landmasses in younger oceans. One example where a midocean ridge intersected a landmass is the Arabian sea, which was formed by the pulling apart of the Arabian Peninsula and Africa.
At transform faults or transform zones.
The North American Plate and Eurasian Plate are separated by the midocean ridge in the North Atlantic, while the Pacific Plate and the Nazca Plate are separated by the midocean ridge in the southeastern Pacific.
One of the midocean ridges is, but others are in other oceans, seas, and bays.
Older, as it moves away from the mid-ocean ridge the sediment gets thicker and older
(1)midocean spreading ridges, (2) subduction zones, and (3) transform faults.Normal fault, Reverse fault, and strike-slip fault
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The midocean ridges are the spreading centers where the plates are moving apart. The seamounts are extinct volcanos produced as the plate passed over a mantle hotspot.
it is known as sea floor spreading. this is when the oceanic plates diverge or move apart which causes the magma from the mantle to rise forming new sea floor.
friction - convection currents in the mantle drag the plates away from the hot rising zone below the ridgegravity - gravity pulls down on the cold dense plate being subducted under the continent, dragging the plate away from the ridge
Oceanic plates typically touch at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed as magma rises from the mantle and solidifies. Additionally, oceanic plates can also interact at subduction zones, where one plate is forced beneath another, leading to the formation of deep ocean trenches and volcanic activity.