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What Is the relation between age of oceanic crust and distance from divergent plate boundary?
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∙ 11y ago
When oceanic crust is still young, it's relatively warm. The older it gets, the colder it gets. The colder it gets, the less volume it takes in, however, it's still the same amount of matter. This causes a bigger density, thus causing the crust to sink deeper into the mantle.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 7y agoAt the oceanic ridges the age of igneous basalt rocks is approximately zero (as that is where they formed) and the rocks get older the farther away.
The ages of sedimentary and metamorphic rocks does not correlate reliably with distance from the oceanic ridges like the ages of igneous rocks, because they can form anywhere not mainly at oceanic ridges. Igneous granite rocks are generally formed around continental volcanos not oceanic ridges.
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∙ 9y agoGeologists have discovered that the deeper the ocean floor the older the crust. Conversely, the shallower the ocean floor, the younger the crust.
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