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What is the behavior of the crustal plates in relation to the asthenosphere?
Crustal (or lithospheric) plates are pulled or pushed by the movement of heated rock in the asthenosphere.
What is a crustal plate?
A crustal plate is a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that drifts slowly on the asthenosphere as it interacts with other plates.
Structures in earth that move on the asthenosphere?
The tectonic plates are the structures that move on the asthenosphere. The plates are found on the lithosphere which lies over the asthenosphere.
What happens in asthenosphere?
It's where the plates of the lithosphere move around on, the plastic like layer of the asthenosphere. the plates move around on these
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.
What crustal feature will form when two crustal plates move together?
a fault
What is the soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move?
It Is Known As The Asthenoshere
Why do rocks and crustal plates move?
beacause it is moving
Do tectonic plates move around on the asthenosphere?
Yes
How can you describe the seven crustal plates?
There are actually at least 31 identified lithospheric plates, the plates consisting of crust and uppermost mantle which float on top of the plastic-like asthenosphere of the mantle.
How does the motions in the asthenosphere can move tectonic plates?
The asthenosphere lies beneath the lithosphere, which is where the tectonic plates lie. Because of the high temperature, the asthenosphere has the property to flow (plasticity); the tectonic plates "float" on this flow.
What forms when two crustal plates move apart?
an earthquake
