GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mid-ocean ridges occur along divergent plate boundaries, where new ocean floor is created as the Earth’s tectonic plates spread apart. As the plates separate, molten rock rises to the seafloor, producing enormous volcanic eruptions of basalt.

Detailed explanation-2: -When two plates are moving away from each other, we call this a divergent plate boundary. Along these boundaries, magma rises from deep within the Earth and erupts to form new crust on the lithosphere. Most divergent plate boundaries are underwater and form submarine mountain ranges called oceanic spreading ridges.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mid-ocean ridges are spectacular, varying in forms and shapes. These include volcanic ridges, fault zones or transform faults, rifts, rift valleys, fractures, etc. Stretching 65, 000 kilometres or 40, 000 miles, it is the longest mountain range on the planet.

Detailed explanation-4: -This would be a divergent since the plates are separating from each other. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mid-ocean ridge, a divergent or constructive plate boundary located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the longest mountain range in the world.

Detailed explanation-5: -The mid-ocean ridge system is an example of a divergent (rather than a convergent or transform) plate boundary. The mid-ocean ridge system has been understood only since the development and acceptance of plate tectonic theory in the 1960s.