Tensional stress
Tensional stress
divergent plate boundaries are associated with normal faulting. Thus there is a horizontal least compressive stress, vertical most compressive stress and a intermediate horizontal stress. All stresses are orthoganal to each other.
A compressional bounday is plate boundarys that are being compressed
Stress at a divergent plate boundary is called tensional stress. This stress creates pulling forces that lead to the plates moving away from each other, resulting in the formation of new oceanic crust.
Convergent on the western perimeter, divergent on the Easter perimeter.
Divergent
divergent boundary
Cool
Convergent,Divergent, and Transform Boundaries
It forms a convergent boundary with the South American Plate, divergent.
It forms a convergent boundary with the South American Plate, divergent.
divergent plate boundary