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Why is the atlantic ocean expanding and the pacific ocean shrinking?

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The Atlantic Ocean is still growing now, because of sea-floor spreading from the mid-Atlantic Ridge, while the Pacific Ocean is said to be shrinking because the sea floor is folding under itself.

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