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| considered a relatively young geological feature in the context of earth's history. |
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Pressure from rising magma leads
to the upwarping of the crust
directly on top |
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Formation of
a rift valley |
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Magma breaks the crust and
produces divergent plates. The
diverging plates form a rift valley |
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Water from the surrounding regions
fills into the depression forming a
linear sea |
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Formation of
an ocean
basin |
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| With the passing of millions of years, the diverging plates continue to spread and an ocean basin is formed |
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Part of the continental land mass covered by
the sea |
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Edge of continental shelf which slopes
steeply downward |
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The base of the continental slope, the area
between the continental slope and abyssal
plane |
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Deepest region of ocean basins excluding
the bottom of trenches. It is a vast, flat, and cold solid surface |
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| The boundary between two diverging tectonic plates, consists of a chain of volcanic mountains with a central valley |
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| divergent plate boundaries |
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play a crucial role in
the formation and development of ocean basins. |
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