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mid-ocean ridge

basaltic underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonic spreading
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Summary

mid-ocean ridge ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,545 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: undersea ridge[2]
  • Commons category: Mid-ocean ridges[3]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Oceanic ridges[4]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[5], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)[6], Belarusian encyclopedia (vol. 15)[7]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000406[8]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[9]

Why It Matters

mid-ocean ridge has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 117 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  7. [8] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  2. 17w ago · Bekipediya · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → Q11702690
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