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If you are referring to continental drift then it is mantle convection that moves some plates away from each other and some towards each other. Heating of the mantle closer to the core and then cooling of the mantle near the surface causes a circular effect, the plates (which float on top of the mantle) get dragged around by the circular movement.
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What causes tectionic plates to be pulled apart?
Plates at our planet's surface move because of the intense heat in the Earth's core that causes molten rock in the mantle layer to move. It moves in a pattern called a convection cell that forms when warm material rises, cools, and eventually sink down. As the cooled material sinks down, it is warmed and rises again.
What do geologists call the process of tectonic plates breaking apart?
Geologists call the process of tectonic plates breaking apart "rifting." It occurs when the Earth's lithosphere is being pulled apart, causing the plates to separate, creating new ocean basins. Rifting is a key stage in the formation of new tectonic boundaries.
Which plate boundary causes rifting?
Rift are formed between divergent boundaries, as the plates break apart from each other, a rift is formed between them. Also as they split apart the void between them forms a rift valley. Like the great rift valley in Africa.
What causes tectonic plates to move?
Tectonic plates move due to the heat and pressure from the Earth's mantle, causing convection currents that push the plates apart or pull them together. This movement is known as plate tectonics.
What is caused by the movement of the plates?
The movement of the hot mantle has broken the crust apart into large plates.
What fault forms when plates are pulled apart?
a normal fault
How are the pushed together and pulled apart?
Both continental and oceanic plates float on the top surface of the mantle, which is divided into convection cells. The movement of these convection cells drag the plates along: where convection causes the mantle material to fall the plates are pushed together and where convection causes the mantle material to rise the plates are pulled apart.
What physical feature in Africa was formed when the plates pulled apart?
The Nile
What causes tectionic plates to be pulled apart?
Plates at our planet's surface move because of the intense heat in the Earth's core that causes molten rock in the mantle layer to move. It moves in a pattern called a convection cell that forms when warm material rises, cools, and eventually sink down. As the cooled material sinks down, it is warmed and rises again.
How was the mount meakan volcano formed?
Plates pushed together makes mountains therefore plates pulled apart makes volcanos
Is it true that rocks an be pulled apart by the movement of tectonic plates?
Yes. Tectonic plates are extremely strong and catastrophic in some cases.
What type of boundary forms when two plates pull apart?
When the two plates are pulled apart it forms a Constructive Plate Boundary. When it is pulled apart, a big hole is made so material from the mantle fills the void and creates a new crust. It can be seen as a wound for example, a scab begins to repair the wound but any stress cracks it apart, that causes the blood (mantle) to ooze back in again to reform a new scab (crust).Hope I helped :)wrong...it's divergent.
What causes two continental plates to diverge?
An earth quake. This happens because the vibrations force the plates apart
When plates beneath the ocean move apart from one another what happens to the magma below?
Magma is extruded as lava at the mid-ocean ridges when they are pulled apart.
What causes tectonic plate to be pulled apart?
Tectonic plates are pulled apart by the process of seafloor spreading, where magma rises from the mantle to create new oceanic crust at mid-ocean ridges. This creates a divergent boundary where plates move away from each other. The driving force behind this movement is the upwelling of magma and the force of gravity pulling denser oceanic crust down and away from mid-ocean ridges.
What do geologists call the process of tectonic plates breaking apart?
Geologists call the process of tectonic plates breaking apart "rifting." It occurs when the Earth's lithosphere is being pulled apart, causing the plates to separate, creating new ocean basins. Rifting is a key stage in the formation of new tectonic boundaries.
What causes colliding plates?
tectonic movement can cause tectonic plates to collide, drift apart, or slide across one another
