Compare The Mid-Oceanic Ridge Of The Atlantic Ocean

Improved Essays
If we drained the mid-oceanic ridge of the Atlantic Ocean to see what it looked like it would just a big canyon filled with magma, and mountains that are slowly moving.This is because the mid-oceanic ridge of the Atlantic Ocean has a divergent plate boundary(also know as constructive plate margins,or they are called spreading centers), with means the plates are pulling apart from each other causing fractures to be created.The fracture are filled with molten rock(magma) that arises from the mantle to fill in the void of the ripped crust,then the molten rock from the mantle, then it starts to slowly cool over time to form new parts of seafloor(this process is called sea-floor spreading).While, new sea-floor is constanstly being made, but its,also

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    In Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History, Wim Klooster examined and compared four Atlantic World Revolutions: The American Revolution, The French Revolution, The Haitian Revolution, and the Spanish Revolutions. Klooster provided an introduction to global events leading up to the eighteenth and early nineteenth century Atlantic World revolutions. He then devoted a chapter to each revolution, and in the fifth and final chapter conducted a comparative discussion. Klooster approached the studies with specific ideas in mind; 1) International context was mandatory, 2)…

    • 547 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Arkansas lies in the nation's largest alluvial plain. It has many mountain and valley tributaries. Crowley’s Ridge is one of those. Rises two hundred feet above the surrounding terrain. This ridge was named for Benjamin F. Crowley.…

    • 573 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Subsequent research helped validate the theory of plate techtonics and the Aleutian Subduction Zone. Over 600 years of landform uplift finally gave way. The initial shaking caused liquefaction from the Spring melt and the proximity of the ocean saturating the soil and making it extremely unstable. When the spring-loaded trigger gave way it thrust the landmass towards the ocean for a period of 4.5 minutes during which most damage occurred. There was a vertical displacement of an area about 200,000 square miles.…

    • 453 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The allure of gold and riches in the Atlantic World tempted Europeans to begin and exploring there, but the long journey there was no easy task. A recently developed kind of ship, the caravel, was strong, durable, fast, and maneuverable. Before the caravel was developed, ships were either strong and durable, or fast and maneuverable; because of this, the invention of the caravel was instrumental in getting Europeans to the Americas. The reason that the caravel was so much better than the ships the Europeans had used previously was that mariners attached a triangular sail to the rear mast of the ship, in addition to the large square sails on the front and center masts. This triangular sail provided added protection from the wind and enabled sailors to return to shore from the sea…

    • 471 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Besides the granite of which there is a plethora of, diorite and monzonite also formed as a result of the cooling of molten rock under the earth’s surface. These rock formations were the result of the natural geological process of subduction in which the Pacific Ocean plate is forced underneath the advancing North American Continental plate. Critically hot water from the subduction of the ocean floor, rose upwards about 75-100 kilometers and melted rocks in its path, creating the volcanic activity that gave rise to rock formations away from the subduction zone. The time at which all these process are dated to have taken place is during the Cretaceous…

    • 864 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Old Idaho Penitentiary Site, Boise, ID 43°36'10.0"N 116°09'43.0"W Old Idaho Penitentiary Site The Old Idaho Penitentiary Site was built in 1870, and the first prisoners arrived two years later. That was also when it was first opened to Idaho. The prison had one cell at one point, but now it has several cells.…

    • 410 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    During the 18th century The Atlantic World was the major area for trading, not just of goods but for the trading of peoples, cultures, diseases, and religions. The coasts of Eastern Africa, North and South America, and Europe made up the Atlantic World, and many people of that time period got a chance to be apart of the interactions between those empires. Yet, none of them with so interesting of a story as African-born healer Domingos Alvares. He moved between West Africa, Brazil, and Portugal; taking along with him his open mind, charisma, and deep spirituality. Although uprooted against his will, Domingos played a huge role in the Atlantic World through his use of religious pluralism, healing practices, and strong sense of social kindred…

    • 1093 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    From 1492-1750, the Atlantic world experienced many social and economic transformations due to new global contacts, such as the emergence of the triangular trade route, the expansion of religion, and the creation of a caste system in New Spain. One of the most important changes during this time period was the establishment and use of a triangular trade route that ran between the Americas, Europe, and Africa. As the Europeans received tobacco and cotton as the first cash crops from the Americas, slaves were sent from Africa in return to run the agricultural plantations, while Europe provided manufactured goods, rum, and textiles to Africa. This level of worldwide interaction was unprecedented and created a more global economy where products…

    • 348 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Atlantic Revolutions in a Global Context ¥ From the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, a series of uprisings shook states and empires from Russia to China and from Persia to West Africa. ¥ There were several aspects of the North American, French, Haitian, and Spanish American revolutions that make them distinct and clearly part of the Atlantic Basin. ¥ The intellectual impact of the Enlightenment created a trans-Atlantic print culture, wherever ideas were changed and debated.…

    • 1052 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Oceana, the Inner Party controls the food and amount of food its citizens get. The Inner Party has access to many foods that the rest of the society has been restricted, it controls the amount by changing the rations whenever it feels may be appropriate and giving them only the bare minimum of food. In North Korea, the idea is just the same, but slightly worse. The leaders of North Korea are having difficulty providing food to its people and through its acts have proved to be corrupt in their decisions, “…North Korea though not accepting aid and destroying any of the food that is given to them should be unthinkable. This is dystopian just for that reason.…

    • 632 Words
    • 3 Pages
    • 2 Works Cited
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Kidd Creek VS

    • 355 Words
    • 2 Pages

    VMS deposits occur in a diversity of shapes ranging from flat lens shaped to large sheet-like sulphide mineral rich bodies (Allen, et al., 2002). The preferred environment for these deposits to form in is submarine near a seafloor opening i.e. black smokers, where hydrothermal fluids escape and precipitate on the ocean bottom (Evans & Moon, 2006). The mineralogy of Kidd Creek VMS deposits often consists out of more than 60 different ore minerals and ore-related gangue minerals, of which 90% or more are iron sulphide such as pyrite, pyrrhotite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and galena. Minerals like bornite, arsenopyrite, tennantite and magnetite may be present in smaller amounts. The gangue is mainly quartz, but occasionally carbonate can also develop…

    • 355 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Hawaii Island Curve Essay

    • 112 Words
    • 1 Pages

    “HONOLULU, Hawaii — A giant stream of molten hot lava is shooting out of a sea cliff on Hawaii Island.” when the lava hits the ocean gets cool when it hits the water. “Kilauea has been releasing lava continuously since 1983. So far, there is no sign of it slowing down, Babb said.’ 1983 the lava has been doing that since then and now scientist have been studying volcanoes and lava.…

    • 112 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Guarneri's Atlantic System

    • 1651 Words
    • 7 Pages

    In the following readings of Guarneri’s, America Compared, the essay writers: Bergquist and Jordan, discuss the Atlantic System; Palmer and McFarlane discuss the American Revolution. Charles Bergquist, in his essay The Paradox of Development in the Americas, illustrates how the distribution of slave and free labor within the Atlantic economy produced different New World winners and losers in the short and long run. Race, climate and culture are essential to understanding the different progress of the societies of the North and South Americas; however, each was facilitated historically by the economic roles the colonies came to play in the wider Atlantic trading system. It was these roles that structured the advancement of the labor…

    • 1651 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    The coastal region is getting eroded but very slowly the sea levels are rising which makes it look like it is getting eroded, rocks are getting eroded under water and also above the water level by physical, biological and chemical . RISING SEA LEVELS are due to the warming of the Ocean which expands the sea water and this melts the ice and glacier. The satellite measurements in the last 20 years has shown that sea levels have doubled and this will only increase further.…

    • 619 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Andean Volcanic Belt

    • 314 Words
    • 2 Pages

    One location where the earth will be different from now is the Andean Volcanic Belt. This group of volcanoes are located near the western coast of South America, near the Andes mountains. From the Volcano Map, it can be seen that there is a large array of volcanos in certain spots of western South America. I believe that this particular formation will continue to form more and more volcanos as time goes by. This would most likely happen because of the subduction boundary going on (South American plate is continental, Nazca Plate is oceanic), and if the Nazca boundary continues to push underneath the South American one, it will cause the plate to liquify, which accordingly would cause eruptions.…

    • 314 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays