East Pacific Rise

[ eest puh-sif-ik rahyz ]

noun

1. a long north-south elevation of the seafloor in the eastern Pacific Ocean extending southward from southwestern Mexico to the Southern Ocean, separating the Pacific Plate from the North American, Rivera, Cocos, Nazca, and Antarctic Plates. : EPR

Word History and Origins

Origin of East Pacific Rise¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

Researchers at Hokkaido University, in collaboration with colleagues at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, have been working on understanding microbial diversity at deep-sea hydrothermal environments on the East Pacific Rise based on microbe cultivation studies.

From Science Daily

The team focused its ROV dives on an area where diverging tectonic plates create a string of deep-sea volcanoes known as the East Pacific Rise.

From Scientific American

We had discovered a significant hydrothermal vent ecosystem on the East Pacific Rise.

From Scientific American

To that end, he says, he and others have been examining hydrothermal vents at a mid-ocean ridge known as the East Pacific Rise.

From Science Magazine

Below was the East Pacific Rise, a point in the ocean floor where continents move apart, causing magma contained in the Earth's core to rise to the surface and spew from underwater volcanoes.

From Scientific American