At divergent boundaries in the oceans, magma from deep in the Earth's mantle rises toward the surface and pushes apart two or more plates. Mountains and volcanoes rise along the seam.

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Divergent Boundary Also known as spreading boundary, a divergent boundary occurs where two plates move apart, allowing magma, or molten rock, to rise from the Earth's interior to fill in the gap.

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Extension deficit builds up over centuries at divergent plate boundaries and is recurrently removed during rifting events, accompanied by magma intrusions and transient metre-scale deformation.

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The boundary where the two plates meet is called a convergent boundary. ... Most of the subducting plate continues into the mantle, perhaps to reappear much later at a distant divergent boundary.