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What causes seafloor spreading, subduction, and the movement of
tectonic plates?

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Subduction happens where tectonic plates crash into each other instead of spreading apart. At subduction zones, the edge of the denser plate subducts, or slides, beneath the less-dense one. The denser lithospheric material then melts back into the Earth's mantle. Seafloor spreading creates new crust.

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hope it helps i do not know if that is the kind of answer you wanted or not but i tried

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