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How would you know if your living near to a destructive plate margin?
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At a destructive margin an oceanic plate moves towards (and disappears into the mantle of) a continental plate or another oceanic plate.
This is the subduction zone. As it is forced downwards, pressure at the margins increases, and this can result in violent earthquakes.
The heat produced by friction turns the crust into magma (liquid rock). The magma tries to rise to the surface and, if it succeeds, violent volcanic eruptions occur.
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At What type of boundary would a trench be created?
Trenches such as the Peru-Chile trench are found at destructive (also known as convergent) subductive plate margins where the denser oceanic plate is being subducted beneath the lighter continental plate. Trenches are common at subduction zones.
What is one structure you would find at an active continental margin that you would not find at a passive continental margin?
On an active continental margin, you would be likely to find an active ocean trench. This structure would generally not occur at a passive continental margin.
What two types of plate boundaries are found along the margins of the plate?
I would guess that its the convergent/destructive plate boundary (2 plates pushing against each other) and the conservative/transform plate boundary (2 plates sliding past each other). The third type divergent/constructive plate boundary happens when the 2 plates are moving away from each other and new land is formed from the magma coming up between them.
What kind of Plate boundary is in japan?
Japan is at the meeting place of four tectonic plates: The Pacific Plate, The Eurasian Plates, The Philippine Plate, and the Okhotsk Plate (sometimes considered part of the North American Plate).
What kind of fault would you expect to find at a divergent plate margin?
Divergent plate boundaries are moving apart so you would expect normal faults to form. Where these have significance on a regional scale they are known as detachment faults. It is also common to find transform faults running at right angles to divergent boundaries that cause offsets in the boundary along its length. Please see the related links for more information.
Where in the world is pumice found?
Pumice is formed from magma coming out of volcanoes where rhyolite would have formed, (Destructive plate margin), but has cooled so fast that it appears glassy, and almost non-crystalline.
What is an oceanic trench?
An ocean trench is a deep canyon in the ocean floor that forms at a destructive plate margin where oceanic crust flows back into the Earth's mantle. An example would be the Mariana Trench is the deepest point in any ocean and is located in the Pacific Ocean
How would a volcano erupt?
A volcano erupts when one tectonic plate subducts below the other. The magma then flows through the gap, causing the volcano to erupt. This is called a destructive plate boundary xxx
What type of plate boundary causes a reverse fault?
In an ideal world this would be a margin that involves some element of compression, so you're looking at a compressional (orogenic) or subducting margin. Anywhere where the crust is thickened generally involves reverse, also known as thrust, faulting.
At What type of boundary would a trench be created?
Trenches such as the Peru-Chile trench are found at destructive (also known as convergent) subductive plate margins where the denser oceanic plate is being subducted beneath the lighter continental plate. Trenches are common at subduction zones.
What is one structure you would find at an active continental margin that you would not find at a passive coninental margin?
On an active continental margin, you would be likely to find an active ocean trench. This structure would generally not occur at a passive continental margin.
What is one structure you would find at an active continental margin that you would not find at a passive continental margin?
On an active continental margin, you would be likely to find an active ocean trench. This structure would generally not occur at a passive continental margin.
Where on earth would you find a subduction zone?
You could find subduction zones in the depths of the oceans, at some plate boundaries. At this location, you would observe one tectonic plate (a plate of lower density then the other) being slipped under another plate into magma. These are also known as destructive boundaries, because crust is being destroyed, (as opposed to diverent boundaries where leaking magma creates new crust.)
What do destructive grasshoppers eat?
they can eat your crops if they are destructive! I would reccomend an exterminator!!
How do you spell margin?
Margin is the correct spelling of this word. The plural form would be spelled as margins.
What is one structure that you would find at an active continental margin that you would not at a passive?
You will find active faults and, if the margin is convergent, volcanoes.
If you wanted to move an element up 10px (relative to the top of the page) by adjusting the margin which side of the margin would you set?
The top margin.
