what type of crust is at the mid atlantic ridge
Mid-ocean ridges such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge are places in the Earth's system of tectonic plates where new crust forms and the plates move away from one another.Powered by magma rising and falling in the mantle, these undersea mountain ranges are formed by numerous eruptions of basalt lava along their length.lay The Earth's plates. Iain Stewart explains how the Earth's crust is divided. Dr Iain Stewart visits the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in Thingvellir, Iceland, a place where it's possible to see the divide between two of the Earth's plates on land.