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Thesemid-oceanicridgesare where new sea floor is constantly created through the up welling of new basaltic magma.
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With new sea floor being pushed and pulled out, the older sea floor slowly slides away from themid-oceanicridgestoward the continents.
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One of the major outcomes of these datasets was that all along the globe, a system ofmid-oceanicridgeswas detected.
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Most active divergent plate boundaries occur between oceanic plates and exist asmid-oceanicridges.
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This is consistent with the observation that many ophiolites probably form in the fore-arc region of island arcs, not atmid-oceanicridges.
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This evidence helps to prove that new sea floor is being created at themid-oceanicridgesand further supports the theory of plate tectonics.
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