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A Mid-Ocean-Ridge develops leading to volcanism and the creation of new oceanic crust.
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∙ 9y agoWhen a divergent boundary occurs beneath oceanic lithosphere, the rising convection current below lifts the lithosphere producing a mid-ocean ridge.
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What occurs when a contenintal and oceanic plate collide?
A tsunami occurs
What happens when an oceanic plate moves under a continental plate?
Subduction occurs and oceanic trench is formed.
When does subduction occur?
Subduction is a process that occurs when two oceanic plates pull apart
Most intraplate volcanic activity occurs where?
Oceanic plate diverge
What occurs when a continental plate collides with an oceanic plate and overtakesit?
subduction
What is slabpull?
Slab Pull Force occurs when a denser oceanic plate is forced beneath a less dense continental plate or oceanic plate in a process called subduction. It's the force caused by suction of the cold dense lithosphere into the asthenosphere at destructive margins. Basically, because lithosphere is denser than asthenosphere, there is gravitational imbalance which is passed on to the crust. this causes the lithosphere to be sucked inwards at the oceanic trenches into deep asthenosphere.
What kind of metamorphism might take place at a divergent boundary?
When a divergent boundary occurs beneath oceanic lithosphere, the rising convection current below lifts the lithosphere producing a mid-ocean ridge!!!Hope i helped.
What occurs in the lithosphere?
The natural disaster that takes place in the lithosphere is Earthquake.
What is the name of the chain of volcanoes that form at an oceanic to oceanic plate boundary?
When there is oceanic-oceanic convergence, one layer of oceanic lithosphere is subducted. This not only introduces water, which lowers the melting temperature of the asthenosphere, but can create an island with a volcano. This occurs when the hot magma rises from the subduction zone and build up in size. This would not have any specific name. If the volcano was situated on a hot spot, however, it would form linear island chains.
What occurs when a contenintal and oceanic plate collide?
A tsunami occurs
What is the process where new oceanic lithosphere formed?
New oceanic crust is created at the mid-ocean ridges where rift volcanoes feed solidifying magma from the asthenosphere to both sides of the divergent plate boundaries. The mid-ocean ridge marks the line where heat from the Earth's interior is being carried to the surface by convection currents in the mantle. At the opposite end of the convection currents, colder, denser, and older oceanic crust is being drawn down into the asthenosphere, the birth to death of oceanic crust occurring in roughly 150 million year cycles.
What is the name of the process where ocean crust sinks back toward the mantle?
It is called subduction and only occurs in oceanic to oceanic or oceanic to continental plate collisions.
What is a place where the crust of the lithosphere has fractured?
A place where the crust of the lithosphere has fractured is known as the asthenosphere. The asthenosphere is located below the lithosphere and is where plate tectonic movement occurs.
What is a place where the crust of the lithosphere has fractured.?
A place where the crust of the lithosphere has fractured is known as the asthenosphere. The asthenosphere is located below the lithosphere and is where plate tectonic movement occurs.
What happens when an oceanic plate moves under a continental plate?
Subduction occurs and oceanic trench is formed.
What occurs when a continental and an ocean plate collide?
The oceanic plate goes under the continental plate and into the mantle in a process known as subduction. This results in the formation of mountains and volcanoes on the continental plate.
What process occurs when local units of a population become reproductively isolated from other units?
genetic divergence
