How does new sea floor form?
The uplifted seafloor results from convection currents which rise in the mantle as magma at a linear weakness in the oceanic crust,and emerge as lava,creating new crust upon cooling.A mid-ocean ridge demarcates the boundary between 2 tectonic plates.
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