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  1. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an ocean ridge, 
  2. formed by the movement of plates described by 
  3. plate tectonics, that runs along the centre 
  4. of the Atlantic Ocean, parallel to its edges, 
  5. for some 14,000km (8,800miles), almost from 
  6. the Arctic to the Antarctic. 
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  8. Subject by: Andrew Longhorn
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