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.
1 Oceanic crust is created at divergent plate boundaries. 2  Convergent plate boundaries -- Plates converge on one another at the site of deep oceanic trenches. 3  Oceanic crust is destroyed at convergent plate boundaries. 4  Transform plate boundaries -- Plates slide past one another.