Assertion: lithosphere's crust | /r/HasProperty | pulled
Facets:
value: constantly
type: TEMPORAL
value: by spreading of the seafloor
type: OTHER
value: sideways
type: MANNER
value: closer to the subduction zone
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: As the oceanic lithosphere subducts to greater depths, the attached continental crust is pulled closer to the subduction zone.
text: Magma rises from above the asthenosphere (a layer of the upper mantle), and as this basaltic material reaches the surface at mid-ocean ridges, it forms new oceanic crust, which is constantly pulled sideways by spreading of the seafloor.
text: The plate includes shear zones such as the Central African Shear Zone (CASZ) where, in the past, two sections of the crust were moving in opposite directions, and rifts such as the Anza Trough where the crust was pulled apart, and the resulting depression filled with more modern sediment.