Sunday, November 20, 2011

Which of the following statements about mid-ocean ridges is not true:?

a. they contain axial rifts


b. they are the largest, most extensive topographic


features on the Earth鈥檚 surface


c. they are composed primarily of folded and faulted


metamorphic rocks and felsic batholiths


d. they stretch continuously across all of the major


ocean basins


e. they are the locations of black smokers and unusual


biological communities|||C. Because mid-oceanic ridges are composed of basaltic rocks which are igneous and any rocks that cool intrusively would be mafic, not felsic.





All of the other answers are true.|||c

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