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What is the process by which plate tectonics produces new oceanic lithosphere at ocean ridges called?
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Seafloor Spreading.
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What is the process called when the oceanic plates slide down the slope of lithosphere-asthenospher boundary?
Ridge Push.
What is the process that creates new oceanic lithosphere at mild ocean ridges?
check out nasa dude have some common sense stupid you
What is a sentence about tectonic plates?
In the past years and centuries earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are theory of plate tectonics. <--- IDK if this is right ...(no not right) The theory of Plate tectonics describes the large scale motions of Earth's lithosphere.
What does subduction have to do with geology?
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.
What process is evident at oceanic trenches?
subduction, which is when one tectonic plate is pushed down beneath another tectonic plate.
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".
Where does plate tectonics take place?
Plate tectonics is a continuous process of individual plate movements involving the entire lithosphere.
What is the process by which new oceanic lithosphere is created as older materials are pulled away?
The subduction process
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 called when the oceanic plates slide down the slope of lithosphere-asthenospher boundary?
Ridge Push.
What is ''slab-push structure?
It pushes hot magma up through the crust and makes volcanoes.
What is the process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises to earth's surface and solidifies at a mid-ocean ridge?
seafloor spreading
What is the process that creates new oceanic lithosphere at mild ocean ridges?
check out nasa dude have some common sense stupid you
Which process is currently accepted explanation of the movement of drifting continents?
the convection currents in the mantle under the earths curst is moving the broken plates in earths lithosphere causing the plates slide across the lithosphere. this process is called tectonics. (jon lay wrote this,)
Plate tectonics used in a sentence?
In geomorphology, Plate Tectonics is the process by which the continents and the oceanic plates are moved across the face of the Earth. This is driven by thermal upwelling in the mantle, and originates from radioactive energy generated in the core of the Earth.
What is the meaning of sea floor-spreading theory?
in the theory of plate tectonics, the process by which new oceanic crust is formed by the convective upwelling of magma at. your welcome peoples!!!!
What is a sentence about tectonic plates?
In the past years and centuries earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are theory of plate tectonics. <--- IDK if this is right ...(no not right) The theory of Plate tectonics describes the large scale motions of Earth's lithosphere.
