Ridge push | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-10-03

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00:00:38 1 Mechanics
00:02:34 2 History
00:02:42 2.1 Early ideas (1912-1962)
00:03:36 2.2 Gravitational models
00:04:52 3 Significance
00:06:11 3.1 Opposing forces
00:06:45 3.2 Notable qualifications



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Ridge push (also known as gravitational sliding) or sliding plate force is a proposed driving force for plate motion in plate tectonics that occurs at mid-ocean ridges as the result of the rigid lithosphere sliding down the hot, raised asthenosphere below mid-ocean ridges. Although it is called ridge push, the term is somewhat misleading; it is actually a body force that acts throughout an ocean plate, not just at the ridge, as a result of gravitational pull. The name comes from earlier models of plate tectonics in which ridge push was primarily ascribed to upwelling magma at mid-ocean ridges pushing or wedging the plates apart.