mid-ocean ridge

mid-ocean ridge
/mid"oh'sheuhn/
any of several seismically active submarine mountain ranges that extend through the Atlantic, Indian, and South Pacific oceans: each is hypothesized to be the locus of seafloor spreading.
[1960-65]

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