Multiple Choice
The thickness of oceanic lithosphere is
A) nearly uniformly 100 km.
B) greatest at the geographic poles and least near the equator.
C) greatest near the mid-ocean ridges and thins out away from the ridges.
D) least near the mid-ocean ridges and thickens away from the ridges.
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