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Is the following sentence true or false? the theory of sea-floor spreading explains why rocks of the ocean floor are youngest near the mid-ocean ridge.____
The ocean floor is the thinnest part.
The Young Ocean Floor is the part of the mantle showing between the 2 split tectonic plates.
sea floor
Along constructive/divergent plate boundaries. This is where the new ocean floor comes from. This is the youngest part of the ocean floor that is.
Continental Shelf.
reef
The bottom of the ocean is part of a tectonic plate or continental shelf, or can be on the breach line between two shelves.
the abyssal plain
Mid- ocean ridge is the part of the continuous underwater mountain range that circles earth.