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What ocean floor features are found at divergent and convergent boundaries?
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Are divergent plate boundaries associated with folded mountains and deep sea trenches?
No. Sea floor trenches are found at convergent boundaries. divergen boundaries form mid-ocean ridges.
What are Two famous divergent boundaries?
the most famous divergent fault is the san Andreas faultEDIT: Actually, the San Andreas Fault is a Transform boundary. A Transform Boundary is when two plates are rubbing against each other while going opposite ways. A Divergent Boundary is when two plates move away from each other. Scientists have not pinpointed and named a Divergent Boundary but Divergent Boundaries usually occur under water in the sea, also called Sea Floor Spreading.
What do convergent boundaries cause?
A divergent boundary between two oceanic crusts can cause mid-ocean ridges such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. A divergent boundary between two continental crusts can cause rift valleys like the East African Rift Valley. Many volcanoes can be formed from the outflow of magma onto Earth's surface, and even volcanic islands such as Iceland can be formed.
Do divergent plate boundaries only occur on the ocean floor?
No. They can also occur on continents.
Another name for divergent boundaries that occur under the ocean is?
Sea floor spreading
Are divergent plate boundaries associated with folded mountains and deep sea trenches?
No. Sea floor trenches are found at convergent boundaries. divergen boundaries form mid-ocean ridges.
Are convergent boundaries and sea-floor spreading related in any way?
No, but divergent boundaries are the spreading of the sea floor and convergent boundaries are tectonic plates push together
What is magmatism?
The formation of igneous rock from magma For example the formation of volcanoes or island arcs at convergent plate boundaries. Or mid-ocean ridges and therefore ocean-floor spreading at divergent plate boundaries.
How does the plasticity of the Asthenosphere help tectonic plates move?
Because the Asthenosphere is malleable, divergent boundaries and convergent boundaries are formed. The plasticity of the Asthenosphere allows the plates to move through sea floor spreading and subduction zones.
Where does new sea floor form?
It forms at the edges of Divergent Tectonic Plates; as opposed to the Earthquakes that are found at the Convergent Plate Boundaries [where one Plate subsides beneath the other Plate].
Which of the above boundaries is sea floor destroyed?
At a Convergent Boundary.
Where can divergent divergent boundary be found?
Most divergent boundaries can be found on the ocean floor. divergent boundaries create Rift Valleys An example of this is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge discovered by Harry Hess.
What are Two famous divergent boundaries?
the most famous divergent fault is the san Andreas faultEDIT: Actually, the San Andreas Fault is a Transform boundary. A Transform Boundary is when two plates are rubbing against each other while going opposite ways. A Divergent Boundary is when two plates move away from each other. Scientists have not pinpointed and named a Divergent Boundary but Divergent Boundaries usually occur under water in the sea, also called Sea Floor Spreading.
Why is the earth's surface not expanding?
This is because when one divergent boundary is occurring (more sea floor being made), convergent boundaries are occurring (the sea floor is being consumed) on the other sides of the plates, such as what is occurring at the Mariannas Trench in the Pacific Ocean.
Does sea floor spreading occur at a convergent boundary?
No. Seafloor spreading occurs at a divergent boundary.
Do Divergent boundaries only occur on the ocean floor?
No. They can also occur on continents.
Three types of plate boundaries?
Convergent (or destructive): Where two plates are moving toward each other. Collisions between oceanic plates results in subduction of the more dense plate. Collisions between an oceanic plate and a continental plate may result in the subduction of the oceanic plate because oceanic plates are more dense than continental plates. Collisions between two continental plates results in uplift and mountain formation where neither plate subducts.Divergent (or constructive): Where two plates are moving away from each other. Divergent plate boundaries are the site of new crust formation, particularly at the mid-ocean ridges, where spreading plates are infilled with basaltic magma from the asthenosphere.Transform (or conservative): Where two plates slide (actually 'grind') alongside each other and neither plate subducts. Earthquakes are common at transform faults due to the grinding and snapping movements of the plates as they move.
