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Where would you find continental crust over a divergent boundary?
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Where are the elder parts of the ocean floor located?
Oceanic crust is created at mid-ocean ridges and (through the creation of new oceanic crust) is pushed toward a convergent plate boundary where it is subducted. So the oldest oceanic crust would be located at a convergent plate boundary where the oceanic crust is being subducted under continental crust.
What are divergent boundaries?
Divergent boundaries are areas where continental or oceanic plates are moving away from each other and creating new crust. Examples would be the Mid-Oceanic Ridge and the East African Rift Zone.
Which fault would be found on divergent boundary?
Normal fault.
Would it be easier to drill through the oceanic crust or the continental crust?
Continental crust is easier. Continental crust is less dense than oceanic crust, which is made of basalt. (Basalt is very dense.)
What plate collision would result in the formation of the most extensive mountain range?
two pieces of continental crust meeting at a convergent boundary:) study island 2012
At what type of plate boundary is new ocean crust formed?
Older material
What type of boundary is new ocean crust crust formed?
This would be called a Spreading center, or a divergent plate boundary.
An example of divergent plate boundary on a continental plate would be what?
The East African Rift Valley
At which boundary would it be easiest to obtain igneous rocks?
At a divergent plate boundary, where new crust is created by infilling magma, creating igneous rock.
What are plate boundaries that move away form each other?
divergent
Would it be more likely for a major explosive eruption to occur at an ocean ridge or at a convergent ocean continental boundary?
it would be more likely to occur at convergent ocean-continental boundary beacuse the rocks are composed with a higher silica and has much thicker continental crust.
Where can you see a divergent boundary without going to a mid ocean bridge?
You would need to find a continental rift. The best example of an active continental rift is the East African Rift.
What type of plate boundary would have less silica content?
divergent boundary
Where are the elder parts of the ocean floor located?
Oceanic crust is created at mid-ocean ridges and (through the creation of new oceanic crust) is pushed toward a convergent plate boundary where it is subducted. So the oldest oceanic crust would be located at a convergent plate boundary where the oceanic crust is being subducted under continental crust.
What would happen if ocean crust and continental crust combine?
They weld together into new continental crust.
What are divergent boundaries?
Divergent boundaries are areas where continental or oceanic plates are moving away from each other and creating new crust. Examples would be the Mid-Oceanic Ridge and the East African Rift Zone.
Which fault would be found on divergent boundary?
Normal fault.
