The plates slide across from each other. By that I mean away from each other and they can make earthquakes and mountains!
Divergant plate boundries
divergant boundries. new rock is formed and pushes the older seafloor outward towards the continental crust.
divergant plate boundaries (the most famous being the mid ocean ridge)create new ocean flooors this is called sea spreading
is a boundary
mountains
Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
-divergent boundry -convergent boundry -transforming boundry
The boundry type that adds to the lithospere is the Divergent boundry.
Tensional stress.
Convergent boundry
the boundry formed by the collision of 2 lithosphere plates
A divergant plate boundary.