When two plates collide with enough force, faulting occurs, breaking the crust.
Faulting (Apex)
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Overall their materials are of the same age, but the continental plates simply break or collide whereas the ocean-floor plates are in constant cycles of construction and destruction.
Type your answer ... The crust of our planet is cracked into seven large and many other smaller slabs of rock called plates, averaging about 50 miles thick. As they move (only inches per year), and depending on the direction of that movement, they collide, forming deep ocean trenches, mountains, volcanoes, and generating earthquakes.
Well, you need more then one plate and the plates collide and they rise. That makes mountains. Now, islands, i think they cause the land to break up into islands. This is because an earthquake may occur.
The molecules are moving (just) fast enough to break the bonds that was holding the substance into a crystalline (or quasicyrstalline) form.
When two plates collide with enough force, faulting occurs, breaking the crust. Faulting (Apex)
The plates collide together and they break apart...
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Overall their materials are of the same age, but the continental plates simply break or collide whereas the ocean-floor plates are in constant cycles of construction and destruction.
Plate boundaries are the absolute edges of the tectonic plates that make up our earth's crust. These plate boundaries clash with others making what are known as fault lines, which are the cause of earthquakes.
Type your answer ... The crust of our planet is cracked into seven large and many other smaller slabs of rock called plates, averaging about 50 miles thick. As they move (only inches per year), and depending on the direction of that movement, they collide, forming deep ocean trenches, mountains, volcanoes, and generating earthquakes.
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Ductile deformation is when rock is given enough stress to break. If the stress is less, it will bend but not break.
The molecules are moving (just) fast enough to break the bonds that was holding the substance into a crystalline (or quasicyrstalline) form.