0
Want this question answered?
Be notified when an answer is posted
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
What did the pattern of earthquakes in the wadati-benioff seafloor zones show scientists?
Slabs of ocean floor return to the mantle in subduction zones
What is a deep earthquake?
Deep earthquakes occur in a region of the mantle called the Benioff zone, where seismic activity follows the interaction between a subducting plate and the upper mantle.
What is the subduction zone called when a oceanic and continental plate converge?
Benioff Zone
What mountain collision of two plates causes the formation?
Your answer is in your question a "collsion", the coming together of two plates in a covergent or destructive boundary, usually involving a benioff zone and subduction.
How deep is the deep zone?
very deep my friend;)
What is a wadati-benioff zone?
A Wadati-Benioff zone is a deep level seismic zone on the line of subduction, which can be as deep as 700 kilometres.
Benioff zones are found near?
It is the area of deep earthquake activity that follows the subducting oceanic plate as it grinds its way toward the mantle. The eartquake zones are called Benioff-Wadati zones, after Hugo Benioff, who discovered them in the 1950s
The zone of earthquakes found along the region where one plate subducts under another?
The Wadati-Benioff Zone
What is the special area of the earth that produces most earthquakes and volcanic eruptions on the planets?
The Benioff-Wadati zone.
Which famous Japanese scientist did earthquake research?
Kiyoo Wadati who discovered the zones of deep seismic activity that mark the downgoing slab of a subduction zone. These are named Wadati-Benioff zones after Professor Wadati and Professor Hugo Benioff who discovered them at much trhe same time while doing independent research.
What did the pattern of earthquakes in the wadati-Benioff seafloor zones show?
Slabs of ocean floor return to the mantle in subduction zones
What did the pattern of earthquakes in the wadati-benioff seafloor zones show scientists?
Slabs of ocean floor return to the mantle in subduction zones
What is a deep earthquake?
Deep earthquakes occur in a region of the mantle called the Benioff zone, where seismic activity follows the interaction between a subducting plate and the upper mantle.
What is the subduction zone called when a oceanic and continental plate converge?
Benioff Zone
What boundary is oceanic lithosphere melted at?
Benioff zone
Which direction does the Benioff Zone descend from the trench into the mantle?
The Benioff Zone is formed when a piece of oceanic crust is being subducted into the mantle. This line of earthquakes follow the angle of the subducting plate as it slides beneath the continental crust.
When did Kiyoo Wadati die?
Kiyoo Wadati died in 1995.
