ridge push

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ridge push (uncountable)

  1. (geodynamics, tectonics) A proposed driving force for plate motion in plate tectonics that occurs at mid-ocean ridges as the result of the rigid lithosphere sliding down the hot, raised asthenosphere below mid-ocean ridges.
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