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What type of plate boundary is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge? How is land formed at boundaries such as this?

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Its a divergent boundary. That when the plates move away from each other.
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ANSWER:

  • The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a tectonic plate or a middle ocean ridge that is situated along the bottom of the Atlantic.
  • This plate boundary divides the plates of North America and Eurasia in the Northern Atlantic and the plates of South America and Africa in the Southern Atlantic Ocean.

Step-by-step explanation:

  • This Mid-Atlantic ridge spreads at an average rate of about 2 and a half cm every year.
  • The ridge was discovered back in 1872 by a group of the expedition by the British aboard HMS Challenger.
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