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Mid-ocean ridges and seafloor spreading are characteristics of oceanic diverging plates, plates that are moving away from each other.
sea-floor spreading is caused by deep-ocean trenches that overflows and makes a new layer come out. heres a video if you would like to watch it.science.discovery.com/videos/...shorts-sea-floor-spreading.html
Convergent boundaries produce volcanoes. Volcanoes form when an oceanic plate and a continental plate converge, causing the oceanic plate to subduct. The subduction causes a magma chamber to form which feeds the volcano when it erupts.
As two plates spread apart from each other at the boundary, magma that was trapped below wells up between them. This magma can be released in the form of volcanoes or ooze out from rift valleys.
As two plates spread apart from each other at the boundary, magma that was trapped below wells up between them. This magma can be released in the form of volcanoes or ooze out from rift valleys.
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the primary force that causes the seaffloor to spread and contienents to drift
Mid-ocean ridges and seafloor spreading are characteristics of oceanic diverging plates, plates that are moving away from each other.
Seafloor spreading
Please make the question clearer. There are converging and diverging boundaries but not spreading boundaries. Plates move but don't spread. Please make the question clearer
sea-floor spreading is caused by deep-ocean trenches that overflows and makes a new layer come out. heres a video if you would like to watch it.science.discovery.com/videos/...shorts-sea-floor-spreading.html
Convergent boundaries produce volcanoes. Volcanoes form when an oceanic plate and a continental plate converge, causing the oceanic plate to subduct. The subduction causes a magma chamber to form which feeds the volcano when it erupts.
As two plates spread apart from each other at the boundary, magma that was trapped below wells up between them. This magma can be released in the form of volcanoes or ooze out from rift valleys.
Oceanic crust on both sides ofthe ridge shows matching patterns of reversed and normal magnetic polarity
As two plates spread apart from each other at the boundary, magma that was trapped below wells up between them. This magma can be released in the form of volcanoes or ooze out from rift valleys.
rising molten magma
The lava that erupts from a volcano may flow down the sides of the volcano's cone and spread out at the foot, so widening the extent of the lava's boundary.