The magma that erupts from the divergent boundary of the Mid-Atlantic ridge produces ____

a. ?thin basalt lava flows
b. ?thin rhyolite lava flows
c. ?andesite volcanoes
d. ?peridotite shield volcanoes
e. ?peridotite lava flows


ANSWER: a

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