Atlantic Mid Ocean Ridge Map

This map shows the overall configuration of the ridges and their names.

Atlantic mid ocean ridge map. A german oceanographic vessel meteor discovered the ridge. The mid ocean ridge wraps around the globe for more than 65 000 km like the seam of a baseball with an average depth to the ridge crest of 2500 m. Warm colors yellow to red indicate the ridge rising above the seafloor and the cool colors green to blue represent lower elevations. Most of the ridge system lies beneath more than a mile of open ocean with an average distance of 8 200 feet 2 500 meters from the water s surface to the ridge s top.

A mid ocean ridge is a system of rifts and parallel mountain ranges or hills found in all major oceans. Mid ocean ridges are divergent boundaries where convection currents in the mantle lift the ocean floor and produce a rift in the lithosphere that follows the crest of the ridge. This image at latitude 9 north is of a small part of the east pacific rise. New lithosphere is created by volcanic activity along the crest of the ridge and the plates on either side of the ridge are moving away from one another.

The mid atlantic ridge runs down the center of the atlantic ocean slowly spreading at a rate of 2 to 5 centimeters 0 8 to 2 inches per year and forming a rift valley that is about the depth and width of the grand canyon. Bathymetric map showing a global view of the mid ocean ridge mor. Click image for larger view and image credit. The galápagos ridge runs from the east pacific rise to cntral america and the northern continuation of the mid atlantic ridge is called reykjanes ridge south of iceland mohns ridge north of iceland and gakkel ridge in the arctic ocean.

Click the image for a 900 pixel version. It is the longest and the most extensive chain of mountains on earth but being located underwater more than 90 of this mountain range remains hidden from view. Two well studied mid ocean ridges within the global system are the mid atlantic ridge and the east pacific rise. A bathymetric map of the mid atlantic ridge the mid atlantic ridge mar is a mid ocean ridge a divergent or constructive plate boundary located along the floor of the atlantic ocean and part of the longest mountain range in the world.

The mid atlantic ridge is a submarine ridge located along the floor of the atlantic ocean that wraps around the globe for more than 65 000 km like the seam of a baseball. It is thought to be the site of upwelling new ocean floor material from earth s mantle from which ocean floors are gradually spreading out laterally the atlantic ridge is the most striking bottom relief feature of the atlantic ocean. It occupies the central part of the basin between a series of flat abyssal plains that continue to the margins of the continental coasts the mid atlantic ridge is in effect an immensely long mountain chain extending for about 10 000 miles 16 000 km in a curving path from the arctic ocean to near the. Computer generated detailed topographic map of a segment of the mid oceanic ridge.