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

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Emmy Maddox

14 December, 01:03

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

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Gianni Ball · Answer 1

The Mid-Atlantic ridge is a

divergent

plate boundary.

At divergent boundaries, two plates move apart from each other and the space that this creates is filled with new crustal material sourced from molten magma that forms below.

Elliana Guzman · Answer 2

The mid Atlantic ridge is a divergent plate boundary. At divergent boundaries, two plates move apart from each other and the space that this creates is filled with new crustal material sourced from molten magma that forms below.