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Meaning of "mid-atlantic ridge"

This phrase refers to a geological feature located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the boundary between tectonic plates and is characterized by volcanic activity and the formation of new oceanic crust
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  • a mostly underwater mountain range on the ocean floor of the Atlantic Ocean about midway between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas; includes Iceland, the Azores, Ascension, St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha and other islands

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This mid-Atlantic ridge is a meeting of two major tectonic plates.
Scientists were not expecting much of interest on the mid-Atlantic ridge.
The Mid-Atlantic ridge runs through the western part of the fjord before going underwater again.
It is also found on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the third most prominent earthquake belt.
This is not a normal section of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the longest ocean mountain range in the world.
Biodiversity patterns and processes on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is part of a wide network of underwater volcanic mountain ranges.
One of the best known is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge marks where Pangaea fractured, to create two new tectonic plates.
Iceland is located on a hot spot on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
The island group lies on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and was created by volcanic activity.
A large example of this would be the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
The section of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between the two fracture zones is seismically active.

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The closest tectonic plate boundary is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the third most leading earthquake belt.
So let us say this is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge right here.
Kolbeinsey is the only subaerial expression of this portion of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Iceland sits on a volcanic hotspot in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and has relatively frequent eruptions.
The species is very common and abundant near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Here 's the Mid-Atlantic Ridge coming down through here.
Convection currents of hot rock pull the Mid-Atlantic Ridge apart.
Millions of years ago, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge drifted eastwards, creeping towards the fixed Icelandic hotspot.
The huge mountain chain beneath them is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge system.
Their work created the first detailed map of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
These fracture zones displace the Mid-Atlantic Ridge a total of 350 km to the west.
The orthogonal supersegment is similar to larger ridge segments of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Examples of this type of rift include the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the East Pacific Rise.
The remarkable volcanic mountain chain where oceanic crust is generated, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Metres below, the valley at the centre of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge stretches out before them.
Fortunata (originally Chorocaris fortunata) lives on deep-sea hydrothermal vents along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
The fracture zone offsets the Mid-Atlantic Ridge by more than 640 km.
It is one of the dominant species in midwater assemblages near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
On the northerly boundary is a continuation of the Mid-Atlantic ridge called the Gakkel Ridge.
Many sites have been discovered in the Atlantic Ocean at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Geologically, it connects the northern end of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge with the Laptev Sea Rift.
It lies in a rift valley that marks the crest of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
One such rift is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
That is Lake Thingvellir and this crack is part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
This one 's called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
The islands of the Azores and Madeira are located in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Scientists call this the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
The North American and Eurasian plates are spreading apart along the mid-Atlantic ridge.
Hekla sits alongside the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
The organism was later isolated in samples from the East Pacific Rise and Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
One tag was recovered from the European side of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge Casey and Kohler 1992.
Like all active volcanoes in Iceland, Hekla sits alongside the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
The pod 's heading back along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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