Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge


The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is located almost directly in the middle of the African and South American Continents. Depending on the location along the plate boundary, the African and South American plates meet at a zig-zag pattern of both divergent and transform boundaries.


Upon closer examination, , it's plain to see the defined ridges characteristic of slowly spreading ridge centers. There seem to be high mountains, and low valleys, differing in certain areas by over thousands of feet, literally straight down in certain areas!



I conclude that this is a slowing expanding rift area ridge with the youngest materials near the center with valleys and mountains formed from a transform plate boundary and the pushing up of magma from under the Lithosphere.

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