How does plate tectonics explain continental drift?
Seafloor spreading is a hypothesis that the sea floor forms at the crest of the mid-oceanic ridge, then moves horizontally away from the ridge crest toward an oceanic trench. The two sides of the ridge are moving in opposite directions. ChaCha 24/7!
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