Mid-Cayman Rise

The location of the Mid-Cayman Rise

The Mid-Cayman Rise or Mid-Cayman Spreading Center is a relatively short (110 km long) divergent plate boundary in the middle of the Cayman Trough. It forms part of a dominantly transform boundary that is part of the southern margin to the North American Plate. It is an ultra-slow spreading center where the North American Plate is rifting away from the Caribbean Plate with an opening rate of 15–17 mm per year.[1]

  1. ^ Hayman N.W.; Grindlay N.R.; Perfit M.R.; Mann P.; Leroy S.; de Lépinay B.M. (2011). "Oceanic core complex development at the ultraslow spreading Mid-Cayman Spreading Center". Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 12 (3): n/a. Bibcode:2011GGG....12.AG02H. doi:10.1029/2010GC003240.