Mid-Atlantic
Mid-Atlantic Ridge The oceanic ridge which separates the North American Plates and South American Plates from the African Plates and Eurasian Plates. It is a slow-spreading ridge, with rugged topography and a well-developed median valley.
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Mid-Atlantic Ridge Atlantes , Atlantic •achromatic, acrobatic, Adriatic, aerobatic, anagrammatic, aquatic, aristocratic, aromatic, Asiatic, asthmatic, athematic, attic, autocratic… Atlantic mackerel , Scomber scombrus (Atlantic mackerel) See SCOMBRIDAE.
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The mid-ocean ridge is an interconnected system of undersea volcanoes that meander over the Earth like the raised seams on a basebal… Median Valley , median valley (axial rift, axial trough) The valley which lies along the axis of some oceanic ridges. From observations from submarines and the inter… Seafloor Spreading , seafloor spreading, theory of lithospheric evolution that holds that the ocean floors are spreading outward from vast underwater ridges. First propos…
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