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What type of plate movement can cause new crust to form in the ocean?
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Is a hurricane tectonic?
No. Hurricanes are caused by atmospheric disturbances and warm ocean water. Plate tectonics has to do with the movement of the Earth's crust.
How are ocean ridge and deep ocean trench related to plate tectonics?
Ocean ridges are produced at divergent plate boundaries, where two plates are moving apart, and new crust is being created which fills the void. At an oceanic trench, two plates are colliding, and the more dense plate is subducted into the mantle. These collisions and separations of crust at their boundaries are responsible for the movement of oceanic and continental crust over time, originally referred to as continental drift.
How did the Pacific plate get its name?
The Pacific Plate got it name due it its location underneath the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Plate is the largest plate because consisting of 20 percent of earth's crust and contains Continental and ocean crust.
What is the process of a oceanic plate colliding with a continental plate?
Its when the oceanic crust and the continental crsut colide together.
What activity in the magma causes crustal plate movement?
convection currents. Causes the magma to move the earths crust creating plate movement.
What are plate movement?
the movement of earths plates or crust
Is a hurricane tectonic?
No. Hurricanes are caused by atmospheric disturbances and warm ocean water. Plate tectonics has to do with the movement of the Earth's crust.
What is the four factors that effect plate movement?
The four factors that effect plate movement are when new crust is created, crust being destroyed, the crust sliding horizontally or when plates merge together.
Which movement of the Earths crust implies that the continental crust is less dense than the oceanic crust?
Plate tectonic movement and subduction zones.
How are ocean ridge and deep ocean trench related to plate tectonics?
Ocean ridges are produced at divergent plate boundaries, where two plates are moving apart, and new crust is being created which fills the void. At an oceanic trench, two plates are colliding, and the more dense plate is subducted into the mantle. These collisions and separations of crust at their boundaries are responsible for the movement of oceanic and continental crust over time, originally referred to as continental drift.
How can the ocean crust be different ages?
On geologic time scales, new oceanic crust is constantly being formed ad mid-ocean ridges while older crust is destroyed at subduction zones. The crust forms at the ridge and is carried away by the movement of the plate as new crust forms to take its place. The oceanic crust is youngest new a mid ocean ridge and oldest far away from it.
What movement does mantle convection currents cause?
They cause plate movement. The plate movement then causes an earthquake.
How did the Pacific plate get its name?
The Pacific Plate got it name due it its location underneath the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Plate is the largest plate because consisting of 20 percent of earth's crust and contains Continental and ocean crust.
What does the movement of Earth's crust along plat boundaries produce?
The movement along plate boundaries would cause an earth quake, a tsanami, or either the building of a mountain.
When the ocean floor collides with a crustal plate what happens?
it subducts underneath the crustal plate
What is the process of a oceanic plate colliding with a continental plate?
Its when the oceanic crust and the continental crsut colide together.
What process cause volcanoes to form along the mid ocean ridge?
The mid-ocean ridges are divergent plate boundaries-areas where earth's lithospheric plates are moving away from each other. This movement causes the crust to "thin out". The thinning allows the magma to come to the surface in the form of volcanoes. Mid-ocean ridge volcanism is just one part of the larger, all-encompassing, and evolving theory of plate tectonics. The production of lava and new crust at the mid-ocean ridges is largely a reaction to gravity induced subduction of oceanic crust at convergent plate boundaries. See related question below.
