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    Evidence That Tensile Stresses Are Actively Pulling the Lithosphere Apart
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Evidence That Tensile Stresses Are Actively Pulling the Lithosphere Apart

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Evidence that tensile stresses are actively pulling the lithosphere apart in an ocean ridge system is given by ________.


A) the width of the ridge system
B) the height of the ridge system
C) the existence of a rift valley in a ridge system
D) the lack of thick sediments on the ridge system sea floor

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