GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -After scaling the mid-ocean ridge and traversing hundreds to thousands of miles of abyssal plains, you might encounter an ocean trench.

Detailed explanation-2: -The massive mid-ocean ridge system is a continuous range of underwater volcanoes that wraps around the globe like seams on a baseball, stretching nearly 65, 000 kilometers (40, 390 miles). The majority of the system is underwater, with an average water depth to the top of the ridge of 2, 500 meters (8, 200 feet).

Detailed explanation-3: -Pacific ridge, where one side of the oceanic crust is being consumed along a subduction zone. At mid-ocean ridges, ocean floor is being formed. At the centre there is a rift valley, formed as discrete segments, bordered by high mountains on both sides.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mid-Ocean Ridges Seafloor spreading occurs along mid-ocean ridges-large mountain ranges rising from the ocean floor.

Detailed explanation-5: -Slow-Spreading Mid-Ocean Ridge Slow spreading ridges like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge generally have large, wide rift valleys, sometimes as big as 10-20 km wide and very rugged terrain at the ridge crest that can have relief of up to a thousand meters (3, 128 feet).