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perpendicular to the ridge axis. If one views the seafloor between the fracture zones as conveyor belts carrying the ridge on each side of the rift away from the spreading center the action becomes clear. Crest depths of the old ridges, parallel to the current spreading center, will be older and
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Over millions of years, tectonic plates may move many hundreds of kilometers away from both sides of a divergent plate boundary. Because of this, rocks closest to a boundary are younger than rocks further away on the same plate.
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or lava flows. Each eruption occurs in only a part of the plate boundary at any one time, but when it does occur, it fills in the opening gap as the two opposing plates move away from each other.
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on opposite sides of ridge centers. The pattern was far too regular to be coincidental as the widths of the opposing bands were too closely matched. Scientists had been studying
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Langmuir, Charles H.; Klein, Emily M.; Plank, Terry (2013). "Petrological Systematics of Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts: Constraints on Melt Generation Beneath Ocean Ridges".
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At divergent boundaries, two plates move away from each other and the space that this creates is filled with new crustal material sourced from molten
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It is at mid-ocean ridges that one of the key pieces of evidence forcing acceptance of the seafloor spreading hypothesis was found. Airborne
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beneath each divergent plate boundary. This supplies the area with huge amounts of heat and a reduction in pressure that melts
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Divergent boundaries are typified in the oceanic lithosphere by the rifts of the oceanic ridge system, including the
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Linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
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Map of Earth's principal plates (divergent boundaries shown as red or pink lines)
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Sinton, John M.; Detrick, Robert S. (1992). "Mid-ocean ridge magma chambers".
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Oceanic divergent boundary: mid-ocean ridge (cross-section/cut-away view)
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is sometimes thought to be associated with the phenomenon known as
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that are moving away from each other. Divergent boundaries within
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is thought to be sufficient to break apart the lithosphere.
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that forms below. The origin of new divergent boundaries at
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Continental-continental divergent/constructive boundary
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Mantle Flow and Melt Generation at Mid-Ocean Ridges
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plate tectonics
tectonic plates
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mid-oceanic ridges
convection
Earth's mantle
lithosphere
rock
asthenosphere
upper mantle
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