d. Describe where we find most of the youngest oceanic crust. What is the age of

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d. Describe where we find most of the youngest oceanic crust. What is the age of the youngest oceanic crust? e. Explain the relationship betveen the youngest oceanic crust and the plate boundaries running through the Atlantic, Indian, and easten Pacific oceans f. Compare the ages of the Atlantic oceanic crust along the coasts of Greenland and northem Europe (north Atlantic), the United States and Africa (central Atlantic) and Argentina and southem Africa (soutih Atlantic). Which part of the Atlantic Ocean opened up first, which second, and which part last?

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Ans...Oceanic crust is formed at mid-ocean ridges it is destroyed in subduction zones,as magma that wells up from these rifts in Earths surface cools it becomes young oceanic crust.The youngest crust of the ocean floor can be found near the seafloor spreading centers,oceanic crust is much much younger than continental crust.

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