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Which of these forms as crust drops along a divergent boundary across a continental plate?
When continental crust meets continental crust, both are too buoyant to be subducted into the mantle. Therefore they collide, creating a mountain range.
When the earth's crust splits and a valley is formed?
Rift
What is it called when the crust splits and a valley is formed?
It's usually called a "rift valley".
What is a canyon on the ocean floor which the crust is bent downwards?
rift valley
What is it when the earths crust splits apart a ravine called a what valley is formed?
rift
Which of the following landforms result from divergence of continental crust?
a rift valley
What is one way a Rift Valley can form?
Continental crust is pulled apart a divergent boundary
Which of these forms as crust drops along a divergent boundary across a continental plate?
When continental crust meets continental crust, both are too buoyant to be subducted into the mantle. Therefore they collide, creating a mountain range.
Deep crack in the mid-atlantic ridge?
A Rift Valley is a deep crack in the mid-Atlantic ridge. They can occur in oceanic crust or in continental crust.
A rift valley can form where two continental plates are?
At diverging continental plate boundaries. Where tectonic plates made up of continental crust move away from each other, causing a depression it the earths crust.
Which boundry does a rift valley forrm at?
divergant boundries. new rock is formed and pushes the older seafloor outward towards the continental crust.
How is the Great Rift valley unique?
the great rift valley is unique because is the longest rift in the world. The great rift valley was maded by plates in the Earth crust. I hope that this really helps!
What is an example of a continental to continental divergence?
the great rift valley of Africa
When the earth's crust splits and a valley is formed?
Rift
Which of these has not happened in the Rift Valley?
old crust destruction
When continental crust begins to separate what forms?
A rift forms.
Where is new crust being created?
In oceanic ridges and continental rift zones.
