How to Use mid-ocean ridge in a Sentence

mid-ocean ridge

noun
  • The mid-ocean ridges on the seafloor, however, keep records.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2018
  • That could make more sense if mid-ocean ridge eruptions were pumping out extra CO2.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The vents are located nine degrees north of the equator along a mid-ocean ridge called the East Pacific Rise.
    Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • The latest boomerang was recorded near the mid-ocean ridge in the Atlantic, where the South American and African tectonic plates slowly inch apart.
    Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 10 Aug. 2020
  • These openings occur because the area is located along a kink in the mid-ocean ridge, and the cracks form as a result of the two plates moving apart at an odd angle.
    Sasha Warren, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2022
  • However, this is only true for the faster-spreading mid-ocean ridges of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2018
  • There are submarine volcanoes, along Earth's mid-ocean ridges, that have been erupting longer.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 7 May 2018
  • Earth's longest mountain chain, the mid-ocean ridge, is slowly revealed after sea levels drop by 6,500 feet.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 3 Feb. 2020
  • The Arctic’s Gakkel Ridge vent could change researchers’ understanding of Earth’s slowest-spreading mid-ocean ridge.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The mid-ocean ridges erupt large volumes of magma, while the Deccan Traps eruptions flood lava across much of the Indian subcontinent.
    Smithsonian, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The Erta Ale has been erupting constantly for over 50 years and it is believed that as the Erta Ale continues to erupt, a new narrow ocean basin with its mid-ocean ridge will be formed.
    Uwagbale Edward-Ekpu, Quartz Africa, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Another missing piece in our planet’s volcanic lifestyle is the mid-ocean ridge system.
    Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The mid-ocean ridges and dinosaurs continue their normal activity.
    Smithsonian, 8 Feb. 2018
  • This new magma percolates its way to the surface and fuels nearly continuous volcanic activity along what are known as mid-ocean ridges.
    Smithsonian, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Scientists rushed to the rift, hoping to study a process that typically occurs underwater, at the mid-ocean ridge, where volcanic material forms new oceanic crust.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2023
  • This phenomenon may have resulted from repeating pulses of volcanism along mid-ocean ridges, which previous research has linked to cycles of ice ages and warming.
    Terri Cook, Scientific American, 1 July 2017
  • Now, Schlindwein is part of an upcoming, multidisciplinary effort to study the Aurora vent field, a slow-spreading mid-ocean ridge dotted with hydrothermal vents and permanently covered in ice.
    Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2022

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