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The 14 pages that link to East Pacific Rise, each with the reason it gives.

• Seafloor spreadingBroader topic: The fast-spreading end member against which ridge morphology is compared.

• Hydrothermal ventBroader topic: Its well-studied vents include sites where giant tubeworm communities were discovered.

• Mid-ocean ridgeBroader topic: Its broad, shallow, valley-free axis showed how spreading speed reshapes ridge topography.

• Pacific PlateBroader topic: Seafloor spreading there creates new crust along the Pacific Plate's eastern boundary.

• Mid-Atlantic RidgeCompared with: Fast spreading builds a broad swell without a rift valley, unlike the Atlantic ridge.

• San Andreas FaultRelated: As this ridge was subducted, it created the triple junctions bounding the San Andreas today.

• Nazca PlateRelated: Seafloor spreading there helped create crust now carried by the Nazca Plate.

• Divergent boundaryBroader topic: Its broad, magmatically active ridge contrasts with slower spreading systems.

• Cocos PlateRelated: Seafloor spreading at its eastern reaches helped create crust now carried by the Cocos Plate.

• Gulf of CaliforniaRelated: Its spreading system connects northward into the gulf’s active plate boundary.

• Oceanic lithosphereBroader topic: Its rapid spreading provides a clear case of lithosphere formation at a ridge.

• Juan de Fuca RidgeCompared with: Its faster spreading contrasts with the Juan de Fuca Ridge's intermediate rate.

• Pacific–Antarctic RidgeCompared with: It is a neighboring ridge system with a substantially faster spreading regime.

• RiftiaRelated: Dense Riftia aggregations occur at hydrothermal vent fields along this ridge.