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mid-ocean ridge
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mid-ocean ridge: see plate tectonics plate tectonics, theory that unifies many of the features and characteristics of continental drift and seafloor spreading into a coherent model and has revolutionized geologists' understanding of continents, ocean basins, mountains, and earth history.
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mid-ocean ridge [′mid¦ō·shən ′rij]
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The deep sea animals are found in ocean areas such as continental margins to the spine- like ridge running down the mid- Atlantic, submerged mountains rising from the seafloor, muddy floor of ocean plains and the vents, seeps and chemically- driven ecosystems found on the margins of mid- ocean ridges and in the deepest ocean trenches.
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