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- Mid-ocean Ridges - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The fastest-spreading ridge moves at about 150 millimeters (about 6 inches) a year What kinds of geologic features can be found along these ridges? Mid-ocean ridges contain a wide variety of features, including ridges, rifts, valleys, seamounts, hydrothermal vents, fault zones, and more
- Exploring The Global Mid-Ocean Ridge - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The RIDGE Program (Ridge InterDisciplinary Global Experiments-described below) embodies and promotes the spirit of this new cross-disciplinary approach to mid-ocean ridge investigations Technological developments also had an enormous influence on our perspective
- Mid-ocean Ridges – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
As the oceanic plates move apart at mid-ocean ridges, rocks from Earth's mantle, far below, rise to fill the void, mostly via slow plastic flow
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Mid-Ocean Ridges
The mid-ocean ridge is a continuous chain of volcanoes on the ocean floor where lava erupts and the crust of the Earth is created Nearly every day, somewhere on the crest of the mid-ocean ridge, there is likely to be an eruption of lava or an intrusion of magma that builds the ocean crust Enter this section of Dive and Discover to learn more about Mid-Ocean Ridges
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge Volcanic Processes - Woods Hole Oceanographic . . .
These data also enable the design of future detailed geophysical and geochemical Mid-Atlantic Ridge studies at the same scale used to understand subaerial volcanic eruptions The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is composed of discrete spreading segments that are tens of kilometers long, and offset by transform faults and nontransform offsets
- Slow-Spreading Mid-Ocean Ridge - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Slow spreading ridges like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge generally have large, wide rift valleys, sometimes as big as 10-20 km wide and very rugged terrain at the ridge crest that can have relief of up to a thousand meters (3,128 feet)
- Hitting the Hotspots - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The great volcanic mid-ocean ridge system stretches continuously around the globe for 60,000 kilometers, nearly all of it hidden beneath the world's oceans
- Scientists Report New Type of Mid-Ocean Ridge in Remote Parts of the . . .
Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have identified a new type of ocean ridge that is spreading so slowly that Earth's mantle is exposed over large regions of the sea floor Their findings of a new ultraslow class of ridge, reported in the November 27 issue of the journal Nature, offer a major change in thinking about the formation of the great crustal plates that
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