Currents in the mantle move magma towards the surface. That is the sea floor. Where the sea floor, or oceanic crust expands new crust is continuously formed by magma and marine sediments. Thus oceans like Atlantic have a ridge in the middle. The mid-Atlantic ridge is infact the longest mountain range in the world and moves America away from Europe and Africa by about 2cm. 1inch a year.
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