Assertion: oceanic lithosphere | /r/CapableOf | become dense
Facets:
value: with age
type: OTHER
value: increasingly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: This thickening occurs by conductive cooling, which converts hot asthenosphere into lithospheric mantle and causes the oceanic lithosphere to become increasingly thick and dense with age.
text: This thickening occurs by conductive cooling, which converts hot asthenosphere into lithospheric mantle, and causes the oceanic lithosphere to become increasingly dense with age.
text: Eventually the oceanic lithosphere becomes so dense that it sinks at the oceanic trenches into the mantle along subduction zones.