This Underwater Mountain Chain Is So Straight It Defies Everything We Know About Geology
The Ninety East Ridge stretches 5,000 kilometers across the Indian Ocean floor in an almost perfectly straight line, making it the longest and straightest geological feature on Earth. This underwater mountain chain was created over 40 million years as a tectonic plate moved over a stationary volcanic hotspot, leaving behind a ruler-straight trail of peaks.
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