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* Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
* Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
** Pacific-Antarctic Ridge, oceanic ridge at the boundary between the Pacific and Antarctic tectonic plates
The Pacific-Antarctic Ridge is the southern extension of the East Pacific Rise.
Stretching north-west from the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge is a long line of seamounts called the Louisville seamount chain which is thought to have formed from the Pacific Plate sliding over a long-lived center of upwelling magma called the Louisville hotspot.
The southern extension of the East Pacific Rise ( called the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge ) merges with the Southeast Indian Ridge at the Macquarie Triple Junction south of New Zealand.
* Pacific-Antarctic Ridge
Beginning in 1966, Lamont – Doherty Geological Observatory scientists found that the magnetic profiles across the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge were symmetrical and matched the pattern in the north Atlantic's Reykjanes ridges.

Ridge and is
The principal feature of the bathymetry ( bottom topography ) is a submarine mountain range called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
The major isotope of berkelium, berkelium-249, is synthesized in minute quantities in dedicated high-flux nuclear reactors, mainly at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, USA, and at the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dimitrovgrad, Russia.
Lamarr is furious that his plans keep failing and decides to destroy Rock Ridge with a newly recruited and diverse army of thugs ( which Lamarr characterized as ideally consisting of " rustlers, cutthroats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperadoes, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, half-wits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswagglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass kickers, shit kickers – and Methodists ").
Boone is a town located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, United States.
Californium-252, with a half-life of about 2. 64 years, is the most common isotope used and is produced at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States and the Research Institute of Atomic Reactors in Russia.
The location of his house in Lower Street is marked with a plaque, although the building itself was demolished ( and elements incorporated into local architect Thomas Lidstone's house on Ridge Hill ) in the 19th century to make way for a new road which was named after Newcomen.
Diego Garcia is frequently subject to earthquakes caused by tectonic plate movement along the Carlsberg Ridge located just to the west of the island.
In the Matthew's Ridge area, there is a railway service.
The town is generally built upon a series of low hills rising to above sea level at " The Ridge " before falling back in the river valley further to the north.
The Chagos-Laccadive Ridge is another submerged mountain range runs approximately north-south between Lakshadweep, the Atolls of the Maldives and the Chagos Archipelago.
The Greenstone Ridge is a high ridge in the center of the island and carries the longest trail in the park, the Greenstone Ridge Trail, which runs 40 miles ( 60 km ) from one end of the island to the other.
* 1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota ; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
The world's longest mountain system is known as Ocean Ridge, which is a chain of mountains that runs on the seafloor of five oceans around the world ; it has a length of, and the total length of the system is.
For example, the Appalachian Mountains range is the parent of other ranges it comprises, some of which are the White Mountains and the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Stretching some 100 km from north to south and about 27 km wide in parts, the region is bounded to the east by the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge, between Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin, and to the west by the Indian Ocean.
The Grande Terre group of New Caledonia, with Mont Panié at 1, 628 meters ( 5, 341 ft ) as its highest point, is the most elevated part of the Norfolk Ridge, a long and mostly underwater arm of the continent.
* 1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
The highest point is Ishpatina Ridge at above sea level located in Temagami, Northeastern Ontario.
They expressed anger at the federal government's handling of the 1992 Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) standoff with Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge as well as the Waco Siege — a 1993 51-day standoff between the FBI and Branch Davidian members which began with a botched ATF attempt to execute a search warrant leading to a fire fight ( it is unknown whether ATF agents or Branch Davidians fired the first shot ) and ended with the burning and shooting deaths of David Koresh and 75 others.
The first recorded European discovery of San Francisco Bay was on November 4, 1769 when Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolà, unable to find the port of Monterey, California, continued north close to what is now Pacifica and reached the summit of the high Sweeney Ridge, where he sighted San Francisco Bay.

Ridge and divergent
A mid-oceanic ridge, for example the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has examples of volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart ; the Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates coming together.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge ( MAR ) is a mid-ocean ridge, a divergent tectonic plate boundary located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the longest mountain range in the world.
The Gakkel Ridge ( formerly known as the Nansen Cordillera and Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge ) is a mid-oceanic ridge, a divergent tectonic plate boundary between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate.
The westerly side is a divergent boundary with the Pacific Plate forming the Gorda Ridge.
Iceland has a high concentration of active volcanoes due to the unique geological conditions of its location on the mid-Atlantic Ridge, a divergent tectonic plate boundary.

Ridge and tectonic
The rift associated with the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which marks the division between the European and North American tectonic plates, runs across Iceland from the southwest to the northeast.
Image: Ridge between tectonic plates of Eurasia and North America. jpg | Ridge between the tectonic plates of Eurasia and North America
The mouth of the Red Sea is also a tectonic triple junction where the Indian Ocean Ridge, Red Sea Rift and East African Rift meet.
Geologically interesting parts of the Valley are the basalt flows and dinosaur tracks in South Hadley and Holyoke, Massachusetts, a chain of basaltic traprock ridges known as Metacomet Ridge along the ancient tectonic rift including the Mount Holyoke and Mount Tom ranges, layers of rock deposit laid down by the river, and varves and deltas
In this case, tectonic activity is unlikely ; some form of slumping on the south-west side of the undersea ( Wyville-Thomson ) Ridge being a more likely cause.
** Pacific-Kula Ridge, former oceanic ridge at the boundary between the Pacific and Kula tectonic plates
** Pacific-Farallon Ridge, former oceanic ridge at the boundary between the Pacific and Farallon tectonic plates
* Macquarie Island between Tasmania and Antarctica the subsequent tectonic plate Macquarie Ridge and junction which align northwards from the island are also named after Macquarie.
The Juan de Fuca Plate is a tectonic plate generated from the Juan de Fuca Ridge and is currently subducting under the northerly portion of the western side of the North American Plate at the Cascadia subduction zone.
* Oceanic spreading ridge: In tectonic spreading zones around the world, such as at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the volcanic activity forming new plate boundary forms volcanic ridges at the spreading zone.
* Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an underwater mountain range in the Atlantic Ocean separating two tectonic plates
The landslide was caused by the presence of pre-existing tectonic structures ( faults and shear zones ) within the southwestern slope of Johnson Ridge.
According to tectonic map, the district lies on Delhi-Lahore Ridge which is bounded by thrusts.

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