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Which process or processes are involved in the sinking of cold ocean plates into the mantle?
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What is the process of the ocean floor sinking beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle known as?
It is called subduction.
What process causes earths plates to move?
The process of 'earth plates moving' is Alfred Wageners theory of continental drift. This theory proposes that convenction currents in the earths mantle provides a 'cushion' on which the plates can move.
Deep ocean trenches are surficial evidence for?
Sinking of oceanic lithosphere into the mantle at a subduction zone.
A series of process on earth's surface and in the crust and mantle that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another is called?
A series of processes on Earth's surface and in the crust and mantle that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another is called
The sinking of cold ocean lithosphere drives the motions of mantle convection through?
slab-pull and ridge-push
Which process or processess are involved in the sinking of cold ocean plates into the mantle?
Slab-pull and ridge-push acting together
What is the process of the ocean floor sinking beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle known as?
It is called subduction.
Is lithosphere sinking into the mantle divergent convergent or transform?
Convergent.
What process causes earths plates to move?
The process of 'earth plates moving' is Alfred Wageners theory of continental drift. This theory proposes that convenction currents in the earths mantle provides a 'cushion' on which the plates can move.
What two processes does convection produse?
it processes a substance called mantle
How are pressure and heat involved in melting rock in the mantle?
It is involved in the Mantle because heat Is used for the temepeter and pressure is for how close the mantle is
What does subduction have to do with geology?
Subduction is part of the geological process of plate tectonics. A subduction zone is a place where the oceanic plate is sinking back in to the mantle (usually at the edge of a continental plate.
What is the cycle in the mantle called?
Below the Earth's is the Earth's mantle. The Earth's crust changes through plate tectonics, the constant process where subduction describes the Earth's crust moving down into the mantle and elsewhere upheaval brings material to the surface. The process is not really a simple cycle but part of the complex geological processes of an active planet.
What are the two of the processes that shape the features of the earth?
The mantle convection process. The solar irradiation process. The earths rotational process These three processes provide the energy which drive all the other subsidiary process affecting the Earth's surface.
What is the primary process involved in the formation of magma at a rift?
Decompression melting of extremely hot mantle rock as it rises toward the surface.
As the ocean floor spreads other parts plunge into the mantle--this process is called?
The first process is called sea-floor spreading (rifting when it happens on land) and the second process is called subduction. Both processes are part of plate tectonics.
Deep ocean trenches are surficial evidence for?
Sinking of oceanic lithosphere into the mantle at a subduction zone.
