MID-OCEAN RIDGE


Meaning of MID-OCEAN RIDGE in English

/mid"oh'sheuhn/

any of several seismically active submarine mountain ranges that extend through the Atlantic, Indian, and South Pacific oceans: each is hypothesized to be the locus of seafloor spreading.

[ 1960-65 ]

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