Due to a much faster melt migration in the brittle part of the lithosphere, the melt migration is simulated by instantaneous melt extraction from an assigned melt extraction region beneath the ridge ...

Fig.1 Cartoon of the magma plumbing system beneath a mid-ocean ridge (From Zhang et al., 2014). Mid-ocean ridges represent the longest and most significant chain of volcanoes on our planet, yet due to ...

Abstract: Pressures at which partial crystallization occurs for mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB) have been examined by a new petrological method that is based on a parameterization of experimental data ...

Raitt, R. W., Shor, G. G., Francis, T. J. G., and Morris, G. B., J. Geophys. Res. (in the press).

As it cools down, the lava creates a long line of mountains under the ocean called the Mid-ocean Ridge - the longest mountain range on Earth. The longest mountain range on land is the Andes in ...