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PRONUNCIATION OF OCEANIC RIDGE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OCEANIC RIDGE

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Oceanic ridge is a noun.
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WHAT DOES OCEANIC RIDGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Mid-ocean ridge

A mid-ocean ridge is a general term for an underwater mountain system that consists of various mountain ranges, typically having a valley known as a rift running along its spine, formed by plate tectonics. This type of oceanic ridge is characteristic of what is known as an oceanic spreading center, which is responsible for seafloor spreading. The uplifted seafloor results from convection currents which rise in the mantle as magma at a linear weakness in the oceanic crust, and emerge as lava, creating new crust upon cooling. A mid-ocean ridge demarcates the boundary between two tectonic plates, and consequently is termed a divergent plate boundary. The mid-ocean ridges of the world are connected and form a single global mid-oceanic ridge system that is part of every ocean, making the mid-oceanic ridge system the longest mountain range in the world. The continuous mountain range is 65,000 km long, and the total length of the oceanic ridge system is 80,000 km long.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OCEANIC RIDGE

ocean-going
oceanaria
oceanarium
oceanaut
oceanfront
Oceania
Oceanian
oceanic
oceanic feeling
oceanic trench
Oceanid
oceanog.
oceanographer
oceanographic
oceanographical
oceanographically
oceanography
oceanological
oceanologist
oceanology

WORDS THAT END LIKE OCEANIC RIDGE

Bainbridge
bridge
Cambridge
cartridge
Coolidge
fridge
Golden Gate Bridge
Lethbridge
London Bridge
nuke the fridge
partridge
porridge
Redbridge
ridge
Stamford Bridge
Stourbridge
suspension bridge
Tonbridge
Trowbridge
Uxbridge
water under the bridge

Synonyms and antonyms of oceanic ridge in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «oceanic ridge» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OCEANIC RIDGE

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The translations of oceanic ridge from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «oceanic ridge» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

洋脊
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dorsal oceánica
570 millions of speakers

English

oceanic ridge
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

समुद्री रिज
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ريدج المحيطية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

океанический хребет
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cume oceânico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মহাসাগরীয় রিজ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dorsale océanique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rabung lautan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ozeanischen Rücken
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

海嶺
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

해령
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ridge oceanic
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

sườn núi đại dương
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடல் பாலம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

महासागर रिज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Okyanus sırtı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dorsale oceanica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

grzbiet oceaniczny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

океанічний хребет
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

creasta oceanic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ωκεάνια ράχη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oseaanrif
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oceanisk ås
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oseanisk ridge
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of oceanic ridge

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OCEANIC RIDGE»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OCEANIC RIDGE»

Discover the use of oceanic ridge in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to oceanic ridge and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Physical Geology: Exploring the Earth
Oceanic ridge Oceanic trench Oceanic ridge Lithosphere Oceanic trench Mantle Oceanic ridge Asthenosphere Oceanic trench In the first model, thermal convection cells are restricted to the asthenosphere. a Oceanic ridge Oceanic trench ...
James Monroe, Reed Wicander, Richard Hazlett, 2006
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Fundamentals of Geophysics
2.6.4.3 Gravity anomalies across an oceanic ridge An oceanic ridge system is a gigantic submarine mountain range. The difference in depth between the ridge crest and adjacent ocean basin is about 3 km. The ridge system extends laterally  ...
William Lowrie, 1997
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Earth Science and the Environment
A narrow, low-volume Mid-Oceanic Ridge results from slow spreading A B A broad, high-volume Mid-Oceanic Ridge results from rapid spreading FIGURE 15.11 (A) Slow sea-floor spreading creates a narrow, low-volume Mid-Oceanic Ridge ...
Graham Thompson, Jon Turk, 2006
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Historical Geology
Oceanic ridge Oceanic trench Laurasia, p. 42 magnetic anomaly, p. 45 magnetic reversal, p. Plate motions derived from magnetic reversals and satellite-laser ranging techniques give only the relative motion of one plate with respect to another ...
Reed Wicander, James Monroe, 2009
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The Earth's Crust and Upper Mantle
A NARROW belt of seismic activity is associated with the crest of the mid-oceanic ridge system and its extensions into East Africa and western North America ( Figure 1). Although seismic belts had previously been identified with certain parts of ...
Pembroke J. Hart, 1971
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Oceanography: An Invitation to Marine Science
Deep-ocean basins constitute more than half of Earth's surface. The deep-ocean floor consists mainly of oceanic ridge systems and the adjacent sediment- covered plains. Deep basins may be rimmed by trenches or by masses of sediment.
Tom Garrison, 2006
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Fundamentals of Physical Geography
Moreover, it became clear that rocks relating to each magnetic phase could be traced linearly along the ocean floor like a band parallel to the mid-oceanic ridge. In addition, the width of each band was found to be proportional to the duration of  ...
David John Briggs, Peter Smithson, 1986
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Essentials of Oceanography
The deep-ocean floor consists mainly of oceanic ridge systems and the adjacent sediment-covered plains. Deep basins may be rimmed by trenches or by masses of sediment. Flat expanses are interrupted by islands, hills, active and extinct ...
Tom Garrison, 2011
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Ophiolites and Oceanic Crust: New Insights from Field ...
The magmatism that built the oceanic crust produced melts similar in composition to the widespread normal to enriched mid-oceanic-ridge basalt (N- to E-MORB) suite found in many spreading ridges, but the melts ranged beyond E-MORB to ...
Yildirim Dilek, 2000
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The Volcano Adventure Guide
Located atop the mid- Atlantic ridge, which cuts across the island from the southwest to the north, Iceland has all of the tectonic and volcanic ingredients of a typical mid-oceanic ridge, including spectacular gaping fissures that result from the ...
Rosaly M. C. Lopes, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OCEANIC RIDGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term oceanic ridge is used in the context of the following news items.
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Explorer Robert Ballard hopes to be model for youth
Ballard covered a broad array of his achievements, ranging from his exploration of the mid-oceanic ridge to his discovery of the Titanic, the ... «Midland Reporter-Telegram, Mar 15»
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Nonexistent geological expertise
Actually, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is only a limited part of the Mid-Oceanic Ridge, the Earth's longest, interconnected mountain system with ... «Inquirer.net, Mar 15»
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'Dinosaur eggs' on Comet 67P
Today we call it the Mid-Oceanic Ridge system. The jet then widened this crack 400 miles on each side. And as these rocks rushed through the ... «Examiner.com, Jan 15»
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Who owns the North Pole? Denmark makes case against Canada's …
Stimson, a non-profit global think tank, also notes that U.S. believes the Lomonosov Ridge to be an oceanic ridge and not part of any country's ... «Yahoo News Canada, Dec 14»
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The day the Earth moved
The stripes on each side showing a weaker signal mark the position of rock that solidified at the oceanic ridge prior to the last reversal when the ... «Cosmos, Oct 14»
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What a crack up: hefty continents got tectonic plates moving
The continent breaks and a mid-oceanic ridge forms above a zone of partially molten mantle (in pink) which produces the basaltic oceanic crust ... «The Conversation AU, Sep 14»
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Does this Flood theory blow Bill Nye's attack on creation out of the …
“All along this globe-circling rupture, whose path approximates today's Mid-Oceanic Ridge, a fountain of water jetted supersonically into and far ... «OneNewsNow, Sep 14»
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More Signs That Europa Could Be Habitable
The feature could function similarly to a mid-oceanic ridge on Earth. (NASA/JPL). By Dirk Schulze-Makuch. September 12, 2014. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0. 0 0 0 0 0 0. «Air & Space Magazine, Sep 14»
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Iceland puts on a show as two of its volcanoes spew out lava
Volcanic eruptions are common in Iceland, which is located in the hot seat of seismic activity – on top of the Atlantic's mid-oceanic ridge. «euronews, Sep 14»
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Iceland raises aviation alert to red as volcanic eruption begins at …
Iceland sits on a volcanic hot spot in the Atlantic's mid-oceanic ridge and eruptions occur frequently, triggered when the Earth's plates move ... «Toronto Star, Aug 14»

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