The Dolphin Ridge refers to a segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which is a large submarine mountain range located in the Atlantic Ocean. Specifically, the Dolphin Ridge is the northern part of this extensive ridge system, north of the equator.
This ridge is part of a series of underwater mountain chains that runs from Iceland to Bouvet Island, extending in an ‘S’ shape across the ocean floor.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, including the Dolphin Ridge, is significant because it represents the divergent boundary between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates, where new oceanic crust is created through volcanic activity as the plates move apart.
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