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What is the difference between oceanic tectonic plates and continental tectonic plates?
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What is the difference between Continental plates and Tectonic plates?
Continental plates are tectonic plates. They are tectonic plates upon which continents rest, and they move as do all tectonic plates. Basically, there is no difference, other than the fact that oceanic plates are another type of tectonic plate.
Name two types of tectonic plates?
The two types of tectonic plates are continental and oceanic.
Do tectonic plates consist of continental or oceanic crust?
They can be either continental or oceanic crust.
What is the difference between the continental crust and the oceanic crusts?
Most significantly, there is a material difference in the weight and density of the two types of crust. This manifests itself when tectonic movement brings oceanic in continental plates into collision. Oceanic crust is relatively denser but typically about 100km this. Continental crust is lighter but almost twice as thick--about 200km.
Is the Pacific plate and oceanic plate or continental plate?
It is oceanic
Tectonic plates can include?
Tectonic plates can either be continental or oceanic.
What accounts for the difference in density between oceanic and continental crust?
The oceanic is heavier
What is the difference between the continental and oceanic?
The material they are made of.
What are the two types of tectonic?
The two types of tectonic plates are continental and oceanic.
C There are two types of tectonic plates oceanic and continental what is the difference between these two types of plates?
The lithosphere displaces the asthenoshpere. Thick tectonic plates, such as those made of continental crust, displace more asthenosphere than do thin plates, such as those made of oceanic lithosphere. The lithosphere displaces the asthenoshpere. Thick tectonic plates, such as those made of continental crust, displace more asthenosphere than do thin plates, such as those made of oceanic lithosphere.
A slab of continental or oceanic crust is known as?
A tectonic plate.
Are tectonic plates composed of continental and oceanic crust?
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