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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-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
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
Marie Tharp - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The extension of the valley into the narrow Gulf of Aden and landward into the Rift Valley of East Africa convinced Bruce in mid-1953 that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge was part of a gigantic 40,000-mile-long mid-oceanic ridge system that extended throughout all the world’s oceans
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
Scientists in Alvin Witness Seafloor Eruption East Pacific Rise, Pacific Ocean (May 2, 2025) – Scientists diving in the human-occupied vehicle Alvin recently witnessed a rare but predicted seafloor eruption along the mid-ocean ridge axis at 9°50’N on the East Pacific Rise