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 arcs form when oceanic crust subducts beneath other oceanic crust on an adjacent plate, creating a volcanic island arc. (Not all island arcs are volcanic island arcs.). 2  continental arcs form when oceanic crust subducts beneath continental crust on an adjacent plate, creating an arc-shaped mountain belt.The term volcanic arc is often confused with the term  island arc . The former is a series of volcanoes, but not necessarily offshore. The latter is a series of islands, not necessarily composed solely of volcanoes.). Volcanoes are present in almost any mountain belt, but this does not make it a volcanic arc.