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What are three mechanisms of crustal thickening that occur at convergent boundaries?
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Three mechanisms for crustal thickening are magmatic intrusion, sedimentation, and faulting.
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Forms when two Crustal Lithospheric Plates come together?
The Convergent/Converging Boundaries
Why are divergent boundary considered constructive while convergent boundaries considered destructive?
divergent - creates new crustal rockconvergent - destroys old crustal rock
What happens with convergent boundaries?
Convergent boundaries are also known as destructive plates. In this region, active volcanic activities, earthquakes, and crustal deformations are always happening.
What is the term for a piece of crust which has been in a collision along a convergent crustal boundary and become accreted to another crustal plate?
terrane
What is the 3 types of tectonic plate motion?
There are 3 primary types of Tectonic Plate boundaries: Divergent boundaries; Covergent boundaries; and Transform boundaries. As the giant plates move, diverging [pulling apart] or converging [coming together] along their borders, tremendous energies are unleashed resulting in tremors that transform Earth's surface. While all the plates appear to be moving at different relative speeds and independently of each other, the whole jigsaw puzzle of plates is interconnected.
Why are divergent boundaries considered constructive while convergent boundaries destructive?
divergent - creates new crustal rockconvergent - destroys old crustal rock
Forms when two Crustal Lithospheric Plates come together?
The Convergent/Converging Boundaries
What is a crustal boundary?
There are 3 types convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries. Convergent collide, divergent move away, and transform boundaries occur when two boundaries pass each other horizontally. The process of subduction is associated with convergent boundaries and tectonic plates play a huge role in these types of boundaries.
Why are divergent boundary considered constructive while convergent boundaries considered destructive?
divergent - creates new crustal rockconvergent - destroys old crustal rock
What happens with convergent boundaries?
Convergent boundaries are also known as destructive plates. In this region, active volcanic activities, earthquakes, and crustal deformations are always happening.
What boundaries are convergent and divergent?
Boundaries, or faults, are locations on the edges of plates, crustal masses that are very slowly moving atop the convective outer mantle (asthenosphere).At convergent boundaries, two crustal masses (plates) are pushing into each other. This can result in subduction, so may be a destructive boundary.At divergent boundaries, two masses of rock are pulling away from each other. This can be a constructive boundary when it produces rifting and seafloor spreading.At transform boundaries, or transform faults, rock masses move past one another. These are known as conservativeboundaries because crust is neither destroyed or created.(these can cause earthquakes when accumulated strain is released)
Oceanic-continental convergent plate boundary.?
oceanic-continental convergent plate boundary has what kind of crustal rocks
What is the term for a piece of crust which has been in a collision along a convergent crustal boundary and become accreted to another crustal plate?
terrane
Do normal faults result in crustal shortening?
Normal faults thin and extend the earth's crust. Reverse faults cause crustal shortening and thickening.
What change earth surface?
Convection currents beneath the tectonic plates of the crustal surface of the earth provide heat from the core in circular motions, and make plate boundaries move together from compressional forces at convergent boundaries, apart from tensional forces at divergent boundaries, and side by side from shear force at transform boundaries.
Why is constructive boundaries a good nickname for divergent boundaries?
Its because they are zones/areas of new crustal formation/creation.
Does an ocean crustal plate rises at a convergent boundary with a continental plate?
No. It subducts under the continental plate.
