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Verlie Corwin
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Describe the three types of plate collisions that occur along convergent boundaries?
There are three types of plate collisions. They are classified by the type of crust involved in the collision. Plate collisions fall into these three types: 1. Both plates have an oceanic leading edge, 2. One plate has a continental leading edge and the other has an oceanic leading edge, and 3. both plates have a continental leading edge
Give examples of where the three types of plate movements occur?
San Andreas Fault--transform plate boundary. Himalayan Mountain Range--convergent plate boundary. Mid-ocean ridge--divergent plate boundary.
What is an example of a collision zone?
An example of an collision zone would be types of fold mountains such as the Himalayas.
A transform boundary is when one plate?
Convergent plates are two tectonic plates that are colliding as they move toward each other. There are several types of converging plate boundaries.Oceanic to oceanic plate convergence:Where an oceanic plate collides with another oceanic plate, the more dense plate sub ducts into the mantle. The subduction results in the partial melting of lithospheric rocks above the area of the subduction, causing underwater volcanoes to form. If the volcanoes grow to reach the surface, volcanic arc islands are formed.Oceanic to continental plate convergence:Where an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate, the oceanic plate is subducted due to the fact that it is more dense, which can also cause volcanism and mountain building.Continental to continental plate convergence:Where two continental plates collide, neither subducts into the mantle, the crust is thickened, and mountain ranges are formed from the thickening and uplift.
How are divergent and convergent boundaries different?
Convergent plates are two tectonic plates that are colliding as they move toward each other. There are several types of converging plate boundaries. Oceanic to oceanic plate convergence: Where an oceanic plate collides with another oceanic plate, the more dense plate subducts into the mantle. The subduction results in the partial melting of lithospheric rock above the area of the subduction, causing underwater volcanoes to form. If the volcanoes grow to reach the surface, volcanic arc islands are formed. Oceanic to continental plate convergence: Where an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate, the oceanic plate is subducted due to the fact that it is more dense, which can also cause volcanism and mountain building. Continental to continental plate convergence: Where two continental plates collide, neither subducts into the mantle, the crust is thickened, and mountain ranges are formed from the thickening and uplift.
What happens during a convergent boundary and what usually forms?
At a convergence boundary during collision of two plates there could either be Subduction or Outcropping. Subduction occurs when the collision involves plates of different types and densities while the other happens when it involves similar plate types. Mountain ranges are formed, also Subduction Zones gives rise to Trenches.
What types of mountain are formed by compression?
all of them
What are three types of orogeny?
Continental-continental, Oceanic-oceanic and Oceanic-continental convergent boundaries.
Are plate tectonics the cause of mountains?
Yes. The tectonics are pushed together and the parts that connect are pushed up and made into mountains. But this only works if the two plates are of equal density, otherwise the denser plate will sink under neath the other plate. The oceanic plates are denser but thinner, and the continental plates are thicker but less dense.
The collision of two tectonic plates produces a volcano what types of plates could be involved?
two seafloor plates and a seafloor plate and continental plate
How were the Andes mountain range and the Himalayas formed differently?
They are both the result of plate tectonics. The Andes mountains are the result of plate tectonics when the so-called South American plate was forced upwards by two other plates covered by oceans that drifted under and into it. The Himalayas formed when the Indian subcontinent drifted northwards and finally bumped into South Asia. The enormous mass of the Indian continent meant that on contact this drift did not immediately stop, but India kept forcing itself nothwards, forcing the earth before it up and 'folding' it into mountains. To this day this drift continues, at a pace of almost 7 centimeters a year.
What type of landform can be created at all three types of plate boundaries in California?
Volcanoes can be formed by all three plate boundaries
When two continental plates collide what types of mountain are formed?
When two continental plates collide,fold mountains are formed.
What mountain types is formed from new material that is added to earth's suface?
Volcanic Mountains
How did the Andes Mountains form?
Types of mountain creation:Volcanic mountains are formed either through the introduction and accumulation of magma over a crustal "hot spot" or through volcanic activity associated with the collision and subduction of a crustal plate, where the melting of the subducted crust creates gasses and pressures that are released in eruptions.Continental crustal plate collisions, where neither plate subducts, create mountain ranges such as The Himalayan Mountain Range, where crustal material is thrust upward faster than erosion can wear it down.Plates can stretch until they crack and slide, forming fault-block mountains.In the ocean, great underwater mountains are formed when plates spread away from one another, and melted rock pushes up through the gap.
What types of mountains form when oceanic plates collide and slide under continental plates?
A Ocean-To-Continent Collision. A Volcanic Mountain Will Form.
How do the three types of convergent boundaries differ from another?
Convergent plates are two tectonic plates that are colliding as they move toward each other. There are several types of converging plate boundaries. Oceanic to oceanic plate convergence: Where an oceanic plate collides with another oceanic plate, the more dense plate subducts into the mantle. The subduction results in the partial melting of lithospheric rock above the area of the subduction, causing underwater volcanoes to form. If the volcanoes grow to reach the surface, volcanic arc islands are formed. Oceanic to continental plate convergence: Where an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate, the oceanic plate is subducted due to the fact that it is more dense, which can also cause volcanism and mountain building. Continental to continental plate convergence: Where two continental plates collide, neither subducts into the mantle, the crust is thickened, and mountain ranges are formed from the thickening and uplift.
