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  • Sea-floor spreading occurs when two tectonic plates pull away from each other, and a crack

  • forms in the ocean floor. Magma from the Earth's mantle pours onto the ocean floor through

  • the crack and creates new oceanic crust.

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Sea-floor spreading occurs when two tectonic plates pull away from each other, and a crack

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