WHAT IS AN ANATOMY OF MID-OCEAN RIDGES?
A mid-ocean ridge or mid-oceanic ridge is an underwater mountain range, formed by plate tectonics.
This uplifting of the ocean floor occurs when convection currents rise in the mantle beneath the oceanic crust and create magma where two tectonic plates meet at a divergent boundary. In Mexico, we can find ocean Ridges, in the photo below I'm going to identify some of the features in the Pacific Ocean zone and the Gulf of Mexico.
On the next picture, I will focus on the Pacific ocean, located on the east part of Mexico, over there we can find the Tehuantepec ridge, Tehuantepec is a linear undersea ridge, and it is the remnant of an old fracture zone.
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