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How have crustal plates moved over time?
Molten magma from the mantle rises at the top oceanic ridge, cools and solidifies, continually forming a crustal plate. Hundreds to thousands of miles from the ridge the plate moves downward into the mantle at the contact with another plate and melts. The continuous process resembling a large "conveyor belt" moves the crustal plate a few centimeters each year.
Movement of the crustal plate?
When the crustal plate moves it vibrates the earths crust and its plates. When the crust and plates are forced to move it can result in volcanic action.
What activity in the magma causes crustal plate movement?
convection currents. Causes the magma to move the earths crust creating plate movement.
Why do the large sections of Earth's crust move?
Large-Scale folding of the earth's crust is mostly caused by the collision of sub-crustal plates.
What causes tectonic plate movement?
Mantle convection currents move the crustal plates that float atop the mantle. Like convection currents in a hot cup of coffee or tea move pepper flakes or pieces of glitter sprinkled on top and floating on the liquid.
How are crustal features related to plate tectonics?
well i think that it is that plate tectonics are when they move by earthquakes and crustal features are when they discribe the crustal and the plate tectonics.
How have crustal plates moved over time?
Molten magma from the mantle rises at the top oceanic ridge, cools and solidifies, continually forming a crustal plate. Hundreds to thousands of miles from the ridge the plate moves downward into the mantle at the contact with another plate and melts. The continuous process resembling a large "conveyor belt" moves the crustal plate a few centimeters each year.
Movement of the crustal plate?
When the crustal plate moves it vibrates the earths crust and its plates. When the crust and plates are forced to move it can result in volcanic action.
What activity in the magma causes crustal plate movement?
convection currents. Causes the magma to move the earths crust creating plate movement.
When a continental crustal plate collides with an oceanic crustal plate the continental crust is forced to move over the oceanic crust What is the primary reason that the continental crust stays on?
Continental crust is less dense than oceanic crust.
How do crustal plate move?
Subsidue-moving downward Uplift-moving upward Thrust-moving side-to-side
How many crustal plates are there?
There are fourteen crustal plates. They all move at different speeds and in different directions.There are three types of plate boundaries; Divergent, Convergent Bounderies, and and transform faults.
Why plate move?
Plates are always shifting at their fault lines, it's just how it is Plate move big.
What crustal feature will form when two crustal plates move together?
a fault
How many centimeters does crustal plate move away towards each other per year?
around three inchese per year about 7.5 centimeter
Why do the large sections of Earth's crust move?
Large-Scale folding of the earth's crust is mostly caused by the collision of sub-crustal plates.
How fast do the plates move to relation to each other?
This varies from plate to plate. Some move at about the speed your fingernails grow, some much faster.
