Unlike faults on land, those formed along mid-ocean ridges are practically a dime a dozen. "The rate of fault generation across these ridges is a hundred times greater than on land," explains Buck ...

At nearly 65,000 kilometers long, the mid-ocean ridge system is the longest mountain range in the world. Running beneath the ocean's surface, mid-ocean ridges are formed at divergent plate ...

One of the Earth's best-ever baby pictures reveals how crust forms at the biggest volcanic feature on the planet. The detailed look at molten magma beneath a mid-ocean ridge, one of the giant ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; ...

The Earth's oceanic crust is formed from magma bodies located beneath mid-ocean ridges. Although axial magma chambers, magma bodies located in the mid-crust, are known to be responsible for ...

THE theory of ocean floor spreading requires that oceanic crust be generated at mid-ocean ridges. Evidence from a variety of sources suggests that the new crust is made largely of basalt and ...