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Mid-Atlantic Ridge: Formation and Facts

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a plate boundary that forms new ocean floor through the cooling of rising magma, which is continuously recycled via subduction. It was discovered in the latter half of the 20th century by a researcher using SONAR technology. The ridge is approximately 200 million years old and extends between several tectonic plates, producing 2-5 centimeters of new sea floor each year.

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Mid-Atlantic Ridge: Formation and Facts

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a plate boundary that forms new ocean floor through the cooling of rising magma, which is continuously recycled via subduction. It was discovered in the latter half of the 20th century by a researcher using SONAR technology. The ridge is approximately 200 million years old and extends between several tectonic plates, producing 2-5 centimeters of new sea floor each year.

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge


The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a type of plate boundary that creates
new ocean floor with the help of magma, This magma rises to the
surface and gets cooled down by the water in the ocean. This
cooled down magma then gets pushed outwards creating new
ocean floor. The reason why we have an endless supply of
magma is because it gets recycled via subduction where the
ocean floor moves downwards from the lithosphere to the
asthenosphere where it gets remelted to create more ocean floor
and this happens over and over again

Who discovered the Mid-Atlantic Ridge


During the latter half of the 20th century, When the invention
of SONAR, Marine Gravity and Marine Magnetic could unveil
the depths of the ocean in unprecedented detail , There was
a particular woman with a great mind for geology. She was
a researcher at Columbia University. One day with a fellow
researcher, She started her first expedition to map out the
ocean floor with the recent SONAR technology where she
found the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Fun Facts
Did you know that the Mid -Atlantic Ridge is
so long that is to unraveled it, you could wrap
it around half of the world?

Did you know the Mid-Atlantic Ridge


Did you Know that the Mid-Atlantic is 200 million years old?
Ridge is between the Eurasian Plate
and North American Plate and also Did you know that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
the African Plate and South American spews out 2-5 centimeters of sea floor every
Plate?
year

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