What is Mediterranean Ridge?
[[File:Hellenic arc.png|thumb|300px|Where the ridge is]] The '''Mediterranean Ridge''' is a wide ridge in the [[Bed (geology)|floor]] of the [[Mediterranean Sea]]. It is next to a rough quarter circle from [[Calabria]], south of [[Crete]], to the southwest corner of [[Turkey]], and from there eastwards south of Turkey, with [[Cyprus]]. From what [[Plate tectonics|tectonic theory]] says, it is caused by the [[African Plate]] [[subduction|subducting]] under the [[Eurasian Plate|Eurasian]] and [[Anatolian Plate|Anatolian]] [[Plate tectonics|plates]]. As the African Plate moves slowly north-northeastward, it [[Plowing|plows]] up the floor of the Mediterranean, lifting it from the [[seabed]], and then above [[sea level]], making the island of [[Cyprus]]. If the [[continental drift|northward movement of Africa]] continues, the Ridge might grow into a long and high [[mountain range]] and destroy the Mediterranean Sea. == Other websites == *[http://www.ifremer.fr/drogm/Realisation/carto/Mediterranee/med-or.html Map of the ''Mediterranean Ridge''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518121803/http://www.ifremer.fr/drogm/Realisation/carto/Mediterranee/med-or.html |date=2008-05-18 }} [[Category:Plate tectonics]] [[Category:Oceanography]] [[Category:Mediterranean Sea]]