"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge on the floor of the Atlantic ... which forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. These are known as Transform Faults.

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible ... from the continent to form a new landmass. A mid-ocean ridge would then mark the boundary between the plates. Mountains and a rift can ...

Her discovery of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the rift running through it provided the first solid evidence that the continents ...

Longest mountain range, running through the Atlantic Ocean, separating the Eurasian and North American plates in the north, ...

While it's the reigning theory now, the road to acceptance was long and bumpy for plate tectonics ... mountains – none larger than the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which Tharp discovered, and is now ...