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13 October, 13:51

Which of the following increases with distance from a mid-ocean ridge?

a) the age of oceanic lithosphere

b) the depth to the sea floor

c) the thickness of the lithosphere

d) all of the above

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  1. 13 October, 14:13
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    d) all of the above

    Explanation:

    As the concept of the seafloor spreading takes place on the earth the older and more denser plates thus to move far away from the mid-oceanic ridges that is continuous source of the lava flows and is a divergent plate boundary and is thus the age, density, and the thickness of the oceanic crust increase with the distance from the ridges.
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