If the Earth's crust was expanding along the oceanic ridges, Hess and Dietz reasoned like Holmes and others before them, it must be shrinking elsewhere.
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A mid-oceanic ridge, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, hosts volcanoes caused by transform boundaries, where two tectonic plates slide past one another.
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The "'East Pacific Rise "'is a mid-oceanic ridge, a divergent tectonic plate boundary located along the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
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If current tectonics continue without change it is thought that an ocean basin with a mid-oceanic ridge will eventually separate the Nubian, Somalian, and Arabian plates.
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Terranes are most commonly associated with different tectonic elements such as island arcs, volcanic plateaus, subduction zones, continental margins, mid-oceanic ridges and continental fragments.
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The sulphides are found around volcanic hot springs, especially in the western Pacific Ocean, while the crusts occur on oceanic ridges and elsewhere at several locations around the world.
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The continuous mountain range is long ( several times longer than the Andes, the longest continental mountain range ), and the total length of the oceanic ridge system is long.
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The results of the sediment studies were ground-breaking since they revealed that the sediment thickness increased away from the mid-oceanic ridges, along with the sediment accumulation time.
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The age is often equal to L / V, where L is the distance from the spreading centre of mid-oceanic ridge, and V is velocity of the lithospheric plate.
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A paper written by Gerya theorizes that the creation of the transform faults between the ridges of the mid-oceanic ridge is attributed to rotated and stretched sections of the mid-oceanic ridge.
