Check Your Understanding
Which characteristics describe divergent boundaries?
- plates moving apart, the creation of new seafloor, and the Mid Ocean Ridge
- deep sea trenches, the destruction of seafloor crust, and subduction
- crust being neither created nor destroyed and shearing motion
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plates moving apart, the creation of new seafloor, and the Mid Ocean Ridge
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