GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Divergent (Spreading):This is where two plates move away from each other. Molten rock from the mantle erupts along the opening, forming new crust. The earthquakes that occur along these zones, called spreading centers, are relatively small.

Detailed explanation-2: -Divergent boundaries occur along spreading centers where plates are moving apart and new crust is created by magma pushing up from the mantle.

Detailed explanation-3: -“Divergent plate tectonics pull apart from each other producing rift valleys at mid-oceanic ridges.” Most divergent plates are at oceanic plate boundaries.

Detailed explanation-4: -Divergent boundaries are typified in the oceanic lithosphere by the rifts of the oceanic ridge system, including the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the East Pacific Rise, and in the continental lithosphere by rift valleys such as the famous East African Great Rift Valley.

Detailed explanation-5: -The East African Rift (Great Rift Valley) in eastern Africa. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge system separates the North American Plate and South American Plate in the west from the Eurasian Plate and African Plate in the east. The Gakkel Ridge is a slow spreading ridge located in the Arctic Ocean. More items