How is lava produced at a mid-ocean ridge?

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Benjamin Awad · Accepted Answer

A mid-ocean ridge is an underwater mountain range. This mountain range is formed underwater between 2 oceanic plates at a divergent boundary.

Each year, these plate boundaries pulled apart from each other, causing magma to rise from the mantle to fill the gap at the plate boundary.
The magma cools and solidifies on the surface forming part of the crust. The plates hence diverge away from each other causing solidified magma to move away from the plate boundary as well. This is what causes ocean spreading.

This discharging and solidification of magma at the plate boundary forms a mid-ocean ridge over time which is a series of submerged mountain range.

Some examples of Mid-ocean ridges are:

Mid- Atlantic Ridge: Eurasian- North American plate boundary
Central Indian Ridge: African- Indo-Australian plate boundary

Victoria Argento · Answer

undefined Lava is produced at mid-ocean ridges through volcanic activity resulting from the upwelling of molten rock, or magma, from the Earth's mantle. As tectonic plates diverge at mid-ocean ridges, magma rises to fill the gap, eventually reaching the surface and erupting as lava. This process is known as seafloor spreading and is a key mechanism driving the formation of new oceanic crust.