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What is the name of the area where one plate slides beneath another plate?
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The area where one plate sinks into the asthenosphere underneath another plate is known as?
A subductilon zone
What type of structure has formed where the Jaun de Fuca plate is subducting beneath the North American plate?
The Nazca Plate and the South American Plate are colliding. Because oceanic plates like the Nazca are more dense than continental plates, they are forced below the continental plate and subduct, or flow downward into the mantle at varying degrees of descent from the area of collision!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is the type of tectonic plate boundary that forms from a collision between two tectonic plates?
Volcanic mountains over hot spots in the mantle. Fault-block
What is a Noahs Ark?
where the living fauna on a rifted plate is carried until it docks with another area adding new components.
What is an area where magma melts through the crust in the middle of a plate?
A hot spot is a place where material from the magma melts through the crust in a non plate boundary location.
What is a region where one lithospheric plate is being forced beneath another?
The area or region where one plate dives beneath the other in a convergent plate boundary is called a subduction zone.
What two plates formed mount Pinatubo?
Mt. Pinatubo is in a subduction zone. subduction is when one tectonic plate slides under another. In the Mt. Pinatubo area the Eurasian Plate slides under the Philippine Sea Plate at the Manila Trench.
What type of plate boundary is when one sinks beneath another?
A convergent plate boundary is where one of the plates is sinking beneath another, and the other one is being pushed on top of the subducting plate. This is called a subduction zone. This happens when denser, heavier oceanic crust meets less dense, thicker, continental crust.When two plates converge, and one is less dense, that plate goes under the more dense plate into the mantle, this is called subduction.subduction will happen and a volcano will be formed. when one plate slides beneath another one magma from earths mantle is being pushed up on earths surface.
What process in Earth's interior causes subduction and sea-floormspreading?
Convective flows of molten rock beneath the Earth's crust causes tectonic plates to spread apart in one area and to sink or be subducted beneath another plate at the opposite edge of the plate.
What is an area where one of the huge plates under the earths surface slides under or pulls away from the edge of another plate and magma rises to the surface of the earth?
volcano
What is the area called when one plate is forced under another plate?
Subduction Zone
What is the area in PowerPoint that displays slides as thumbnails?
The slide panel is the area as described. It contains slides as number and their order.
The area where one plate sinks into the asthenosphere underneath another plate is known as?
A subductilon zone
How does a plate tectonic have to do with a volcano?
Volcanoes tend to form on the land above an area where one techtonic plate is subducted beneath another. The eastern edge of the Pacific plate is being subducted under the South American plate. The subducted plate melts under the extreme pressure and temperature. The molten rock then works its way up through stress fissures, caused by the two plates colliding, to form volcanoes in the area above the subduction zone. This is why there are volcanoes along the length of the Andes.
Do catfish start earthquakes?
no plate tectonics do Yeah, them farting causes the ground beneath them to begin shaking violently, causing complete eradication of an area.
Why are Japan and California so prone to earthquake activity?
Both California and Japan are located on or near plate boundaries, where two of Earth's tectonic plates slide past one another. The San Andreas Fault runs along much of the length of California. Here the Pacific Plate slides northward while the North American Plate slides southward. The are numerous smaller, related faults in the area as well. Off the coast of northern California is the southern part of the Cascadia Subduction Zone where the small Juan de Fuca Plate slides to the east and under the North American Plate. As the plates move and snag, tension builds up, which is released in the form of an earthquake. Japan is also located near a subduction zone. Here the Pacific and Philippine Plates slide under the Eurasian and Okhotsk Plates.
What type of structure has formed where the Jaun de Fuca plate is subducting beneath the North American plate?
The Nazca Plate and the South American Plate are colliding. Because oceanic plates like the Nazca are more dense than continental plates, they are forced below the continental plate and subduct, or flow downward into the mantle at varying degrees of descent from the area of collision!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
