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SPLITTING APART. This ultraslow-spreading ridge shares features with typical midocean ridges, such as upflows of molten magma that collect below the surface (front left and right corners in image). At the ultraslow ridges, however, solid slabs of cooled mantle rock may rise directly to the seafloor (center of image). Credit: P. Oberlander and Dick
Found in: Earth Science

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