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Mid-ocean ridge: Mountain, Rift, Plate tectonics, Seafloor spreading, Oceanic crust, Divergent boundary, Convection, Lava, Iceland, List of landforms, ... Database of the Ocean Floor, Ridge-push - Softcover

 
9786130636432: Mid-ocean ridge: Mountain, Rift, Plate tectonics, Seafloor spreading, Oceanic crust, Divergent boundary, Convection, Lava, Iceland, List of landforms, ... Database of the Ocean Floor, Ridge-push
Softcover
ISBN 10: 6130636431 ISBN 13: 9786130636432
Publisher: Alphascript Publishing, 2010

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A mid-ocean ridge or mid-oceanic ridge is an underwater mountain range, typically having a valley known as a rift running along its spine, formed by plate tectonics. This type of oceanic ridge is characteristic of what is known as an oceanic spreading center, which is responsible for seafloor spreading. The uplifted seafloor results from convection currents which rise in the mantle as magma at a linear weakness in the oceanic crust, and emerge as lava, creating new crust upon cooling. A mid-ocean ridge demarcates the boundary between two tectonic plates, and consequently is termed a divergent plate boundary.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A mid-ocean ridge or mid-oceanic ridge is an underwater mountain range, typically having a valley known as a rift running along its spine, formed by plate tectonics. This type of oceanic ridge is characteristic of what is known as an oceanic spreading center, which is responsible for seafloor spreading. The uplifted seafloor results from convection currents which rise in the mantle as magma at a linear weakness in the oceanic crust, and emerge as lava, creating new crust upon cooling. A mid-ocean ridge demarcates the boundary between two tectonic plates, and consequently is termed a divergent plate boundary.

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Publisher
Alphascript Publishing
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
6130636431
ISBN 13 
9786130636432
Binding
Tapa blanda
Number of pages
96
Editor
Miller Frederic P., Vandome Agnes F., McBrewster John