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The process by which the Earth's crust breaks apart can occur within continental crust or oceanic crust?
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You're probably thinking of weathering and erosion (or just weathering) or excavation :)
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When a large chunk of ice breaks loose from a continental glacier the process of breaking is commonly referred to as?
Calving
What is the maximum thickness of the earth's plates?
Centers of continental plates can extend to depths of more than 200 kilometers, with greater depths under young mountain systems. At subduction zones the oceanic plate can be pushed as deep as 600 kilometers into the mantle before it breaks up and melts under the continental plate.
How do volcanoes form in convergent boundaries?
A convergent plate boundary, otherwise known as a destructive plate margin, forms volcanoes. This happens when -The subducting plate brings down silicates such as sand down with it. -Eventually, the plate melts but mixes with the silicates. This forms a more viscose but lighter magma -This rises because it is lighter until it reaches the moho, (the boundary between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere, (the plate and the stuff it floats own). This is the other plate. -It then breaks though, slowly rising to the surface. -It then erupts out of a volcano a few miles in to land. (This is the continental-oceanic process. The oceanic-oceanic, is slightly different).
What process breaks down granite into sediment?
The process that breaks down granite into sediments is weathering.
Most oceanic gas hydrates are created when breaks down organic matter trapped in ocean-floor sediments?
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What is the process that breaks up rock on earths surface?
weathering breaks rocks on earths surface
When a large chunk of ice breaks loose from a continental glacier the process of breaking is commonly referred to as?
Calving
What is a process that breaks down rocks above the Earth's surface?
The process that breaks down rock above the earths surface are numerous and could be generally reffered to as Exogenous Processes, they include, Weathering, Denudation and Mass-wasting.
What is the maximum thickness of the earth's plates?
Centers of continental plates can extend to depths of more than 200 kilometers, with greater depths under young mountain systems. At subduction zones the oceanic plate can be pushed as deep as 600 kilometers into the mantle before it breaks up and melts under the continental plate.
How do volcanoes form in convergent boundaries?
A convergent plate boundary, otherwise known as a destructive plate margin, forms volcanoes. This happens when -The subducting plate brings down silicates such as sand down with it. -Eventually, the plate melts but mixes with the silicates. This forms a more viscose but lighter magma -This rises because it is lighter until it reaches the moho, (the boundary between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere, (the plate and the stuff it floats own). This is the other plate. -It then breaks though, slowly rising to the surface. -It then erupts out of a volcano a few miles in to land. (This is the continental-oceanic process. The oceanic-oceanic, is slightly different).
What process breaks down granite into sediment?
The process that breaks down granite into sediments is weathering.
Magma that breack through the earths curst is called?
Once magma breaks through the earths crust it is called"lava"
How do weathering and erosion affect earths surface?
Weathering and erosion is wind or water that breaks away rock or soil. The rocks they carry can erode away other rocks.
What is the process that breaks down Rock at Earth's surface called?
Denudational processes, which includes, weathering, erosion, deformation, and exfoliation. Mass movement also plays a great role in changing the earths surface.
What often occurs along faults or breaks in earths crust where movement occurs?
earthquakes
What is the meaning of weathering?
Weathering is when a rock breaks down through contact with the Earths atmosphere
Most oceanic gas hydrates are created when breaks down organic matter trapped in ocean-floor sediments?
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