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.
Oceanic crust is formed at an oceanic ridge, while the lithosphere is subducted back into the asthenosphere at trenches. There are two processes, ridge-push and slab pull, thought to be responsible for the spreading seen at mid-ocean ridges, and there is some uncertainty as to which is dominant.