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A mid-ocean ridge or mid-oceanic ridge is an underwater mountain range, formed by plate tectonics. This uplifting of the ocean floor occurs when convection currents rise in the mantle beneath the oceanic crust and create magma where two tectonic plates meet at a divergent boundary.
ScienceA mass of rocks and sediment carried down and deposited by a glacier, typically as ridges at its edges or extremity.
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