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When gravity pushes down on the floor it causes ridge pressing. Ridge pressing pries the the sea floor apart causing the magma to come up out of the mantle to cool and create a new crust. Not only does it create a new crust but it pushes the continents father apart. That is why over time they grow father and farther apart.

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