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A tectonic plate is a piece of lithosphere. The lithosphere is the outer, rigid "shell" of the earth. A plate moves along the asthenosphere (layer below the lithosphere) and can be either continental or oceanic lithosphere. Volcanic activity and earthquakes are common at boundaries of individual plates.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 15y agoPlates are segments of the outermost rigid shell of the Earth, composed of the crust and attached upper mantle, which float on the plastic like asthenosphere. Divided by divergent, convergent and sliding (transform) boundaries, the thirty or so plates of the shell range in size from the massive Pacific Plate at over 100 million square kilometers to the relatively miniscule Galapagos micoplate at 12 thousand square kilometers.
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∙ 10y agoPlates in science means the earth plates.The plates that are called Tectonic Plates. These plates are under the crust and keep moving. These are actually layers of rocks or same kind of material.
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∙ 11y agoIt means like a earth plate, or something like that. Like all the earth is made of plates.
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What type of plate boundary and geological event is mountains?
I know that the plate boundaries are 2 continental but I don't know the geological event.
What geological activity or activities happen at sliding plate boundaries?
Plate boundaries are associated with geological events such as earthquakes and creation of topographic features like the mountains, volcanoes, mid-ocean ridges, and oceanic trenches.
What does subduction have to do with geology?
Subduction is part of the geological process of plate tectonics. A subduction zone is a place where the oceanic plate is sinking back in to the mantle (usually at the edge of a continental plate.
What is main central thrust?
The Main Central Thrust is a major geological fault where the Indian Plate has pushed under the Eurasian Plate along the Himalaya.
List of geological terms?
Please refer to the related link and you'll learn a lot of them!
What is a plate in geological terms?
crust?
What is a subduction in geological terms?
it when one of tectonic plates (lithosphere) descends under another plate (asthenosphere)
What is a plate geological term?
crust?
What is plate in geological term?
crust?
What type of plate boundary and geological event is mountains?
I know that the plate boundaries are 2 continental but I don't know the geological event.
What is responsible for Earth's geological phenomena?
Plate tectonics.
Is an Earthquake geological?
Yes, because they are created by plate movements.
What is the geological theory that states that pieces of earths crust are in constant slow motion is?
The movement of crustal or lithospheric plates is a part of the theory of plate tectonics. The geological theory is called plate tectonics.
What is the geological theory that pieces of earths crust are in constant slow motion is called?
The movement of crustal or lithospheric plates is a part of the theory of plate tectonics. The geological theory is called plate tectonics.
What is the geological theory that pieces of Earth's crust are in constant?
Plate tectonics
What kind of geological event happen with plate movement?
Earthquakes and tsunamis
What is geological theory that states that pieces of earths crust are in constant slow motion called?
The movement of crustal or lithospheric plates is a part of the theory of plate tectonics. The geological theory is called plate tectonics.
