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Seafloor continues to move away from the mid-ocean ridge and eventually comes into contact with another plate boundary. Ocean plates subduct underneath continental plates and are forced down into the lithosphere

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Q: What evntually happens to seafloor that is carried away from a mid-ocean ridge?
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