New crust forms at midocean ridges where the sea floor spreads apart. (discovermagazine.com)
It could be that the fluids over hundreds of miles of midocean ridges are influenced by even moderate quakes.» (scientificamerican.com)
And the Nankai Trough sediments are starkly different from another high - temperature environment, the hydrothermal vents on midocean ridges. (sciencemag.org)