A tectonic plate is a piece of lithosphere. The lithosphere is the outer, rigid "shell" of the earth. A plate moves along the asthenosphere (layer below the lithosphere) and can be either continental or oceanic lithosphere. Volcanic activity and earthquakes are common at boundaries of individual plates.
Plates are segments of the outermost rigid shell of the Earth, composed of the crust and attached upper mantle, which float on the plastic like asthenosphere. Divided by divergent, convergent and sliding (transform) boundaries, the thirty or so plates of the shell range in size from the massive Pacific Plate at over 100 million square kilometers to the relatively miniscule Galapagos micoplate at 12 thousand square kilometers.
Plates in science means the earth plates.The plates that are called Tectonic Plates. These plates are under the crust and keep moving. These are actually layers of rocks or same kind of material.
It means like a earth plate, or something like that. Like all the earth is made of plates.
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I know that the plate boundaries are 2 continental but I don't know the geological event.
Plate boundaries are associated with geological events such as earthquakes and creation of topographic features like the mountains, volcanoes, mid-ocean ridges, and oceanic trenches.
Subduction is part of the geological process of plate tectonics. A subduction zone is a place where the oceanic plate is sinking back in to the mantle (usually at the edge of a continental plate.
The Main Central Thrust is a major geological fault where the Indian Plate has pushed under the Eurasian Plate along the Himalaya.
When a plate is subducted under another the geological feature depends what type of plate boundary it is. If it is two oceanic plates then the subduction causes Island Arcs to be formed as well as a trenches. When a oceanic plate is subducted under a continental plate then a trench is again formed just off the shore of the continental plate and fold mountains are created as the continental plate is forced upwards and the friction melts the oceanic plate into magma which then rises (as it is less dense than surrounding magma) and forms volcanos.
crust?
it when one of tectonic plates (lithosphere) descends under another plate (asthenosphere)
crust?
crust?
I know that the plate boundaries are 2 continental but I don't know the geological event.
Plate tectonics.
Yes, because they are created by plate movements.
The movement of crustal or lithospheric plates is a part of the theory of plate tectonics. The geological theory is called plate tectonics.
The movement of crustal or lithospheric plates is a part of the theory of plate tectonics. The geological theory is called plate tectonics.
Plate tectonics
Earthquakes and tsunamis
The movement of crustal or lithospheric plates is a part of the theory of plate tectonics. The geological theory is called plate tectonics.