What would happen to Earth if ocean floor were created at divergent boundaries at a faster rate than it is destroyed at convergent boundaries?

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Zaiden Moody

10 October, 03:13

What would happen to Earth if ocean floor were created at divergent boundaries at a faster rate than it is destroyed at convergent boundaries?

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The Earth would increase in volume

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What would happen to Earth if ocean floor were created at divergent boundaries at a faster rate than it is destroyed at convergent boundaries?

Divergent boundaries are boundaries where plates pull away from each other, forming mild earthquakes and volcanoes as magma comes to the surface. Earthquakes are as a result of vibrations travelling within the earth or ocean floors. Volcanoes occur as a result of the eruption of molten magma from the ocean floor

In divergent boundaries, the plates pull away and and the weakened crust in between collapse leaving more space thereby increasing in volume.

Convergent boundaries are boundaries that pull into each other. mountain chains are formed as the two plates push into each other if they are of the same density.