10-SCI | DIVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARY

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Divergent Plate Boundary

These are the region where crustal plates are moving away from each other and in opposite directions. It is also where seafloor spreading occurs producing a new oceanic crust

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Rift Valleys

The breaking of the crust into several segments leads to the formation of down faulted valleys called __

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Basaltic

Crust of the ocean on top

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Gabbro

Crust of the ocean in the bottom

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Magma

rises from the Earth’s mantle to the surface, solidifying to create new oceanic crust

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Rift Zones

Allows further spreading to produce an ocean