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Where is new crust formed and where does old crust go?

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A mid-ocean ridge causes the magma to come out of the rift, when it comes out the next stage is it becomes cold and hard which forms new oceanic crust. The new crusts keep pushing the old ones into subduction zones into a trench.

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