MORB Tectonic Setting Claire, Ryan and Hana
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MORB Tectonic Setting Claire, Ryan and Hana
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Description
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Mid-Ocean Ridges are the major basalt (MORB) producing region of the world. Mid-Ocean Ridges drive plate tectonics. This is because as more basaltic oceanic crust is produced at the Mid-Ocean Ridges, the two plates further divide. Some of the largest and most active Mid-Ocean Ridges are the East Pacific Rise and the Mid Atlantic Ridge.
Picture from:
Winter, J. D. (n.d.). Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology Class Material.
Retrieved May 6, 2015, from https://www.whitman.edu/geology/winter/
JDW_PetClass.htm
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Creator
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Claire Kojaian
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Mediator
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Tamara Carley
carleyt@lafayette.edu
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Rights Holder
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Lafayette College Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences
