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What three features can be found at divergent boundaries?
Rifts Mid-oceanic ridges Volcanic islands
Elevated ridges along the flood plain are known as?
Leeves
What are rifts and what kinds of eruptions would you expect?
a rift is a crack cause by plates moving apart along ocean ridges. You could expect fissure eruptions.
What are the landforms at divergent ocean plate boundaries?
Occasionally, mid-ocean ridges are found at a divergent boundary. Another feature that is made is a rift valley. Also, earthquake activity at fracture zones alone mid-ocean ridges, and volcanic activity
What is it called when 2 plates move away from each other?
mid - ocean ridges, they're caused by divergent boundaries Rifts are also on land, such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa mid - ocean ridges, they're caused by divergent boundaries Rifts are also on land, such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa mid - ocean ridges, they're caused by divergent boundaries Rifts are also on land, such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa
What three features can be found at divergent boundaries?
Rifts Mid-oceanic ridges Volcanic islands
The formations that run down the centers of mid-ocean ridges?
rifts
What seafloor feature can be found along the rifts in the mid ocean ridges?
hydrothermal vents
Sea-floor spreading was a key discovery because it showed?
that mid-ocean ridges have rifts at the center.
Is the place where two tectonic plates move away from one another?
mid - ocean ridges, they're caused by divergent boundaries Rifts are also on land, such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa mid - ocean ridges, they're caused by divergent boundaries Rifts are also on land, such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa mid - ocean ridges, they're caused by divergent boundaries Rifts are also on land, such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa
Divergent plates move from each other This causes to form as well as mid-ocean ridges?
away, rifts
Elevated ridges along the flood plain are known as?
Leeves
What are unique feature of crystalline evaporate rock?
it is schemulan rock. this means that it formed on ridges and rifts, making it more fragmental.
Identify five major features of the ocean floor?
Features found on the ocean basin floor consist of valleys and rifts. This underwater mountain system can be found in all oceans of the world.
What term is used to indicate its outward folds of the cerebrum?
gyri, its "elevated ridges"
Elevated ridges along the flood plain are known as when a river overflows its banks?
levees
What are rifts and what kinds of eruptions would you expect?
a rift is a crack cause by plates moving apart along ocean ridges. You could expect fissure eruptions.
