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Age of oceanic crust; youngest (red) is along spreading centers. Seafloor spreading is a process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge. Seafloor spreading helps explain continental drift in the theory of plate tectonics.he destruction of oceanic crust occurs at subduction zones where oceanic crust is forced under either continental crust or oceanic crust. Today, the Atlantic basin is actively spreading at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Only a small portion of the oceanic crust produced in the Atlantic is subducted.
Introduction to continental rifting. Intro comment: Ocean basins, and the oceanic crust within, are bounded by continental rocks. Running seafloor spreading backwards also brings the continents back together, and so it is clear that continents come apart to make new oceanic basins.In this section we will study what happens when continents come apart.ut it turns out that the behavior is much more complex, and sometimes the rifting aborts, sometimes it is concentrated, sometimes it is more diffuse, and localized rifting can occur in what may initially seem unlikely positions-on top of convergent mountain belts for example.