The oldest seafloor is a no more than 200 million years old because
A) the ocean floor subducts during plate collisions.
B) hot spots continuously destroy the ocean floor.
C) the ocean floor is pushed up onto continental material during plate collisions.
D) oceanic volcanic eruptions continuously creates new metamorphic rock from old oceanic crust.
E) Earth is only 200 million years old.
A
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