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At a divergent boundary what feature forms when two oceanic plates are involved?
An oceanic trench is formed. Divergent boundaries pull away from each other, forming a cavern in the ocean floor. The Marianas Trench is a good example of a divergent boundary.
What is formed where two plates meet?
---- ---- A volcano or a mountin forms when they push up and a threch is formed when it pushea down. When ever two plates meet they create an earthquake.
When two plates move past each other what is formed?
Assuming that you're referring to tectonic plates, nothing is formed when two plates move past each other other than a fault line and an earthquake.
How do rift zones formed?
they are formed by two tectonic plates pulling away from each other
What forms from convergent boundaries?
At convergent plate boundaries, mountains and volcanoes form. That goes for continent to continent collisions and ocean to continent collisions. However, trenches, like the Mariana Trench are formed when two oceans collide.
What are the two tectonic plates that formed the Mariana Trench?
Your D & V
What kind of plate was the marianas trench made on?
The Mariana Trench is on two tectonic plates: The Pacific Plate and the Mariana Plate. The Pacific Plate is beneath the Mariana Plate by subduction.
What happens when two oceanic plates move?
When the plates separate water fills in the cracks, this leaves trenches ie. (Mariana Trench) the deepest part of the ocean approx. 7mil below sea level.
What happens when Two plates moving apart?
When the plates separate water fills in the cracks, this leaves trenches ie. (Mariana Trench) the deepest part of the ocean approx. 7mil below sea level.
What two landforms are formed far from the plate boundaries?
The two plates are; Indo-Australian Plate subducts and Pacific Plate that form the Puysegur Trench.
What happens when 2 plates move away from one another?
When two plates move away from one another, it creates a divergent boundary where new crust is formed as magma rises to fill the gap. This process is associated with features like mid-ocean ridges and volcanic activity.
What is the are where two tectonic plates meet?
a trench
What is formed when two plates collide into each other?
It depends on the type of crust involved. If both plates carry oceanic crust, an ocean trench is formed along with a volcanic island are on the overriding plate. If one plate carries oceanic crust and the other continental, you will get an ocean trench, a continental volcanic arc, and a mountain range. If both plates carry continental crust, then a mountain range is formed.
The seafloor divided where two platesmoved away from each other?
Actually it formed where two plates hit each other and one was subducted.. This subduction, or moving under, causes trenches to form. This in fact is how the marianas trench was formed.
When one plate causes another to descend into the mantle is?
A subduction zone, that includes a ocean trench. This is only possible if one of the plates are oceanic, because if two continental plates collide a mountain range is formed.
What type tectonic plate boundary forms the Mariana trench?
A Transform Fault ZoneIn the textbook Earth Science and the Environment (4th Edition) by Thompson and Turk. Located on page 163, it shows that Tonga has a Convergent Boundary. A convergent boundary is where two lithospheic plates collide head on.
What are facts about the mariana trench?
The Mariana Trench (or Marianas Trench) is the deepest known part of the world's oceans, and the deepest location on the surface of the Earth's crust. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands. The trench is about 2550 km (1580 miles) long but has a mean width of only 69 km (43 miles). It reaches a maximum depth of about 11,034 meters (36,201 feet) at the Challenger Deep, a small slot-shaped valley in its floor, at its southern end.[1]Part of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc system, the trench forms the boundary between two tectonic plates, where the western edge of the Pacific Plate is subducted beneath the small Mariana Plate. Because the Pacific plate is the largest of all the tectonic plates on Earth, crustal material at its western edge has had a long time since formation (up to 170 million years) to compact and become very dense; hence its great height-difference (which translates to water depth) relative to the higher-riding Mariana Plate, at the point where the Pacific Plate crust is subducted (is forced down beneath the other). This deep area, is the Mariana trench proper. The movement of these plates is also responsible for the formation of the Mariana Islands.At the bottom of the trench, where the plates meet, the water column above exerts a pressure of 108.6 MPa, over one thousand times the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level. Some creatures of the type normally encountered that could live at these depths are few, but some fish species, like the angler fish or other deep-sea fish, have been spotted in these waters.[
