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The birth of an ocean1. The process begins withdoming and uplift over a broadarea.2. Then the stretched and thinnedcrust subsides, eventually to befilled with seawater.3. It is followed by seafloorspreading and the creation ofoceanic crust.Open University, 1989 62

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