It is now called the Mid-Ocean Ridge. In 1953, American physicists Maurice ... Six large and several smaller plates make up the surface of the globe. Most of the world's earthquakes and volcanoes ...

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

Graphic showing the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge (red line) and how melting ice from Greenland caused changes in the motion of Earth's crust (purple arrows). (Image Credit: Tao Yuan and Shijie Zhong) ...