One of the major outcomes of these datasets was that all along the globe, a system of mid-oceanic ridges was detected.
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So, still the question remained : how can new crust be continuously added along the oceanic ridges without increasing the size of the Earth?
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A small amount of primary production is generated deep in the abyssal zone around the hydrothermal vents which exist along some mid-oceanic ridges.
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This evidence helps to prove that new seafloor is being created at the mid-oceanic ridges and further supports the theory of plate tectonics.
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Ophiolites with compositions comparable with mid-oceanic ridge basalt are rare, and those examples are generally strongly dismembered in subduction zone accretionary complexes.
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The Phoenix Ridge, a mid-oceanic ridge between the Rivera and the Cocos Plate were formed by the fragmentation of the Farallon Plate.
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Another factor contributing to the guyots being underwater has to do with the oceanic ridges, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Atlantic Ocean.
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At the Chile Triple Junction in Taitato-Tres Montes Peninsula, an oceanic ridge the Chile Rise is subducting under the South American plate.
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At 309 Ma a mid oceanic ridge plate boundary encountered the subduction boundary near Tin Can Bay south of Fraser Island on the North D'Aguilar block.
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The Pacific-Antarctic Ridge is the southwest region of the East Pacific Rise, the mid-oceanic ridge located at the base of the Pacific Ocean.
