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A mid-ocean ridge demarcates the boundary between two tectonic plates, and consequently is termed adivergentplateboundary.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Usually, only two arms of any given three-armed graben become part of adivergentplateboundary.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Not all forces within the system form adivergentplateboundary, some strike-slip movement occurs in the fault system.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Fresh unweathered material is constantly supplied at divergent plate boundaries and at so-called mantle hot spots.
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Volcanoes located at convergent plate boundaries emit more water vapor and chlorine than volcanoes at hot spots or divergent plate boundaries.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Most active divergent plate boundaries occur between oceanic plates and exist as mid-oceanic ridges.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One of these divergent plate boundaries fails (see aulacogen) and the other two continue spreading to form an ocean.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Globally most fault zones are located on divergent plate boundaries on oceanic crust.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Most divergent plate boundaries are at the bottom of the oceans; therefore, most volcanic activity is submarine, forming new seafloor.
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