Meaning Mid-Oceanic Ridge
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Mid-Oceanic Ridge


Chain of submarine mountains where oceanic crust is created from rising magma plumes and volcanic activity. Also associated with this feature is plate divergence which creates a rift zone.
Source: physicalgeography.net

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Mid-Oceanic Ridge


(geology) any of an interconnected system of broad submarine rises formed by plate tectonics
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