If the plates there continue to diverge, millions of years from now eastern Africa will split from the continent to form a new landmass. A mid-ocean ridge would then mark the boundary between the ...

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction ...

But the continents get cooler as they move away from the mid ocean ridge, and they subside. The ocean rises over the edges of the continent, creating the passive margins. They are called passive ...

that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is involved actively in plate tectonics more than ever thought before. "This work refutes long-held assumptions that mid-ocean ridges might play a passive role in plate ...

The Gofar fault operates much like the San Andreas, in that two tectonic plates slide sideways past ... to see how it connects to the adjacent mid-ocean ridge. We are hopeful that additional ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...

This is called a destructive or convergent plate boundary ... forming shallow-sided volcanoes. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, where the Eurasian and North American ...