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What causes volcanoes to form at spreading boundaries?
Please make the question clearer. There are converging and diverging boundaries but not spreading boundaries. Plates move but don't spread. Please make the question clearer
Do volcanoes form on diverging or converging plate boundaries more?
Most are found on converging
What formed at divergent and converging boundaries?
Convergent and divergent boundaries are terms used in plate tectonics to describe the juncture at two plates and how they move in relation to each other. Divergent plates move apart and convergent move towards each other.
Are formed at divergent and converging boundaries?
Convergent and divergent boundaries are terms used in plate tectonics to describe the juncture at two plates and how they move in relation to each other. Divergent plates move apart and convergent move towards each other.
What are formed at divergent and converging boundaries?
At divergent boundaries, mid-ocean ridges are formed as tectonic plates pull apart. At converging boundaries, various geologic features are formed such as trenches, mountains, and volcanic arcs, depending on the type of plates involved (oceanic vs. continental).
Where volcanoes occur?
volcano occur in hot spot and diverging boundaries and converging boundaries.
How are plates moving at converging boundaries?
At converging boundaries, tectonic plates move toward each other. This movement can lead to one plate being forced beneath another in a process known as subduction, often resulting in the formation of mountain ranges, deep ocean trenches, and volcanic activity. The collision of the plates can also cause earthquakes due to the intense pressure and friction generated at these boundaries. Overall, the dynamics of converging boundaries play a crucial role in shaping the Earth's geology.
Do the mountains occur on diverging or converging boundaries?
Mountain ranges form on previously converging boundaries and take a very long time to form into the mountains known today.
What type of plate boundary does compression occur?
Converging Plate Boundaries
Are the major lithospheric plates bounded by diverging and converging boundaries?
They are divided by divergent, convergent AND transform boundaries.
What physical changes to earth's surface occur at converging boundaries?
mountains
How are transform boundaries different from converging and diverging boundaries?
a boundary at which two plates moves past each other horizontally
