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How does the theory of plate tectonics support the theory of seafloor spreading?

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When oceanic plates diverge, tensional stress causes fractures to occur in the lithosphere. 

At a spreading center, basaltic magma rises up the fractures and cools on the ocean floor to form new seabed.

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