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What is the type of boundary where two plates move together causing one of the slabs of lithosphere to descend into the mantle beneath an overriding plate?
Subduction
Is the geothermal gradient associated with divergent plate boundaries greater than the gradient associated with subduction zones?
Yes. Due to the thinness of the lithosphere at the divergent plate boundary, and the upwelling of hot mantle rock.
Why did chances peak erupt?
The volcano erupted due to it lying on a destructive plate boundary, where the denser North American Plate, was sinking underneath the less dense Caribbean Plate causing a subduction zone. Due to the sinking of the North American Plate into the mantle, magma started to rise to which caused the volcano to erupt.
What is the difference between the mantle and a convergent plate boundary?
The mantle is below the plates.
The Andes Mountains are an example of mountain building activity at which type of plate boundary?
The Nazca Plate, Antarctic Plate, and the South American Plate. 🌍
What is the type of plate boundary where two plates together causing where the slabs of lithosphere to descend into the mantle beneath an overriding plate?
Subduction
What is the type of plate boundary where two plate move together causing one of the slabs of lithosphere to descend into the mantle beneath an overriding plate?
Subduction
What is the type of plate boundary where two plates move together causing one of the slabs of lithosphere to descend into the mantle beneath overriding plate?
Subduction
What type of plate boundary results in the rifting of the lithosphere?
A divergent plate boundary.
What is the type of boundary where two plates move together causing one of the slabs of lithosphere to descend into the mantle beneath an overriding plate?
Subduction
What is the process of thrusting oceanic lithosphere into the mantle along a convergent plate boundary called?
First of all it is NOT a process of thrusting. It is a process of convection and in terms of plate tectonics, it is called "subduction".
What is slab resistance?
as the subducting plate skins into the mantle, friction between the mantle and lithosphere will oppose plate motion.
Is the geothermal gradient associated with divergent plate boundaries greater than the gradient associated with subduction zones?
Yes. Due to the thinness of the lithosphere at the divergent plate boundary, and the upwelling of hot mantle rock.
Is a transform fault boundary?
A transform fault boundary is a conservative plate boundary. This is what gets rid of lithosphere.
How are the asthenosphere and lithosphere involed with plate tectonics?
The lithosphere is the brittle surface layer composed of the crust and uppermost mantle. The asthenosphere is the ductile upper mantle on which the lithosphere is able to move.
Why did chances peak erupt?
The volcano erupted due to it lying on a destructive plate boundary, where the denser North American Plate, was sinking underneath the less dense Caribbean Plate causing a subduction zone. Due to the sinking of the North American Plate into the mantle, magma started to rise to which caused the volcano to erupt.
What is the rigid layer that includes the upper part of the mantle and the crust of the Earth?
The lithosphere is composed of the crust and uppermost mantle. Combined, they form the lithospheric plates.
