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What is the relatively soft layer of rock below the lithosphere?
The softer layer below the lithosphere is the asthenosphere. The asthenosphere begins at a depth of approximately 150 km. It has convection currents that arise from the heating and subsequent rising of material from the lower asthenosphere. These convection currents drive the movement of lithospheric plates at the surface, and are the cause of tectonic activity.
How do plates move where convection currents are risig?
The lithosphere is the continental crust, oceanic crust and upper part of the mantle. The convection currents move in the mantle mostly in the Asthenosphere layer under the lithosphere. As the convention currents move it makes the lithosphere spread and shake.
What are tectonic plates pushed by?
In the mantle, there is a fluid-like layer called the asthenosphere which has convection currents, due to the heat of the inner core. Earth's plates are hypothetically "floating" on the asthenosphere. The currents in this layer push whatever is on top of it, thus the continents move.
The driving forces to tectonic plates are related to convection currents in earths what?
mantle.
How thick are the convection currents?
The convection currents are in the mantle😱
What do convection currents in the asthenosphere cause?
The convection currents running through the asthenosphere are widely believed to be the source of movement of the tectonic plates.
What causes the convection currents in the asthenosphere?
The convection currents running through the asthenosphere are widely believed to be the source of movement of the tectonic plates.
The layer of rock that has convection currents flowing?
The asthenosphere.
Why are there three convection currents in the asthenosphere?
There way more than that.
For convection currents in the asthenosphere where does the heat come from?
The bottom of the Earth. :)
From convection currents in the asthenosphere where does the heat come from?
from the bottom of the earth
How does the rock move in the asthenosphere?
Convection Currents carry the plates
Where do convection currents flow through the earth?
The mantle called the asthenosphere
Evidence of convection currents within the asthenosphere comes from?
heat flow values
Why can lithosphere plates drift or move?
convection currents cause movement in the asthenosphere
How is the rock cycle related to the movement of earth's plate?
convection currents convection currents convection currents
How is the rock cycle related to the movement to earths plates?
convection currents convection currents convection currents
