Trends of 'incipit'. Used Rarely. incipit is in the lower 50% of commonly used words in the Collins dictionary.
At the MOR, molten rock is carried upward towards the surface via convection, where new oceanic lithosphere is generated (usually as an fine-grained igneous rock known as basalt) and the plates are further pushed away from the spreading center.
plate boundaries new oceanic lithosphere is created in the gaps from upwelling magma from the mantle. This upwelling magma forms mid-ocean ridges, long mountain chains that mark the boundaries between diverging plates. The static size of the Earth implies that crust must be destroyed at about the same rate it is being created. Plate