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What is the process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms at mid-ocan ridges called?
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What is the process by which plate tectonics produces new oceanic lithosphere at ocean ridges called?
Seafloor Spreading.
What is the process called when the oceanic plates slide down the slope of lithosphere-asthenospher boundary?
Ridge Push.
What is the name of the outerlayer of the lithosphere?
The crust is the outer layer of the lithosphere.
What is the process called when the oceanic floor sinks into a trench and back into the mantel?
This is known as subduction.
Earths lithosphere is broken into separate sections called?
It is broken into tectonic plates. Two types are the Continental Crust and the Oceanic Crust.
What is the process by which plate tectonics produces new oceanic lithosphere at ocean ridges called?
Seafloor Spreading.
What is the process called when the oceanic plates slide down the slope of lithosphere-asthenospher boundary?
Ridge Push.
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 is the process of thrusting oceanic lithosphere into the mantle along a convergent plate boundary called?
First of all it is NOT a process of thrusting. It is a process of convection and in terms of plate tectonics, it is called "subduction".
What are the two lithosphere plates called?
Continental and oceanic
What is the name of the outerlayer of the lithosphere?
The crust is the outer layer of the lithosphere.
The crust and upper mantle are called the?
The crust and the upper mantle are a geological part of the earth called the lithosphere. There are 2 parts of the lithosphere: the oceanic lithosphere, which is made up of land underneath water, and the continental lithosphere, which is the the part made of just land. The lithosphere lies on top of the asthenosphere. The lithosphere is made up of tectonic plates, which are pieces of land floating on the lithosphere.
What is the process called when the oceanic floor sinks into a trench and back into the mantel?
This is known as subduction.
Earths lithosphere is broken into separate sections called?
It is broken into tectonic plates. Two types are the Continental Crust and the Oceanic Crust.
What layer of Earth makes up the plates and what layer causes them to move?
The layer of the Earth which makes up the plates is called the lithosphere. The lithosphere is composed of the continental and oceanic crusts along with the hard upper mantle.
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.
Want to continental plate in an oceanic plate Clyde the oceanic plate will be pushed down into the mental melted in a process called what?
Subduction
