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The mid-ocean ridges of the world are connected and form a single global mid-oceanic ridge system that is part of every ocean, making the mid-oceanic ridge system the longest mountain range in the world, whose total length is ~60,000 km.
Mid-ocean ridges are geologically active, with new magma constantly emerging onto the ocean floor and into the crust at and near rifts along the ridge axes.
Because a mid-ocean ridge is submerged at very deep depths in the ocean, its existence was not even known until the 1950s, when it was discovered through surveys of the ocean floor conducted by research ships.
ExplorerRidge lies at the northern end of a chain of 3 spreading centers located off the west coast of North America.
ExplorerRidge consists of one major segment, Southern ExplorerRidge, and several smaller segments.
Before 2002 ExplorerRidge was the least explored of the NE Pacific spreading centers, even though it was known to have robust hydrothermal activity and is seismically active.
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