A continental rift separated the Americas from Africa and Europe, and continued movement formed first a rift basin and then a narrow ocean basin that became the seafloor.
The process of seafloor formation
Seafloors are known to happen at the point where there are divergences in the plate boundary.
The formation happens due to the movement of the tectonic plates from each other.
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