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What results when divergence occurs within the oceanic lithosphere

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At divergent plate boundaries, two lithospheric plates move apart, and new plate (and crust) are created at the boundary. The new crust is created volcanically. This process always produces ocean crust and thus oceanic plate. Thus divergent boundaries ultimately become mid-ocean ridges.

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