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What are the different crustal plates floating on the asthenosphere?
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What is the behavior of the crustal plates in relation to the asthenosphere?
Crustal (or lithospheric) plates are pulled or pushed by the movement of heated rock in the asthenosphere.
Do plates and crustal plates differ?
Plates and Crustal plates are not different it can also be called as Crustal rocks
What is a crustal plate?
A crustal plate is a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that drifts slowly on the asthenosphere as it interacts with other plates.
The sections of solid ground floating are called?
crustal plates
What are the tectonic plates floating?
The continental plates float on asthenosphere, molten rock (lava).
What do tectonic plates float on?
They are floating on the outer core
How are crustal plates similar to ice floating on a pond?
The plates are floating on magma, and will eventually melt as they are subducted back into the mantle, just like ice melting as it floats in the water.
How can you describe the seven crustal plates?
There are actually at least 31 identified lithospheric plates, the plates consisting of crust and uppermost mantle which float on top of the plastic-like asthenosphere of the mantle.
On what layer do the crustal plates float?
The tectonic plates are floating on top of the molten rock and moving around the planet.
Soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats?
As the question uses the word mantle which is a compositional layer of the earth, then the answer is crust.
How many plates are in the crustal plates?
There are 14 crustal plates on the earth.
Does tectonic plates move on lithosphere?
Geologist belive that the platesmove about on the asthenosphere because of convection currents deep within the Earth.
