Sentences with phrase «mid ocean ridges»

There are 70,000 km of mid ocean ridges and enormous potential for vast heat injections via increased magmatism.

The slow diffusion equatorward of the the NA is not that slow, and seems to happen at narrow localized spots near topographic features, mid ocean ridges, continental margins, islands etc, due to tidal internal wave breaking and other related mechanisms which remain unclear.

I visualize this as a series of superimposed transients which we are unable to model because we don't include geothermal heat flow and the way it turns over the water column over mid ocean ridges and other hot spots.

[Response: Not an absurd question, but in practice net geothermal heating (including volcanoes, mid ocean ridges etc) is about 0.075 W / m2 — some 20 times less important than human CO2 increases.

The green layer is the lithospheric plate, which forms at the mid ocean ridge, then cools down and thickness as it moves away from the ridge.

The pathways for the hydrothermal vents at a mid ocean ridge are marked clearly.