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Yes. The surface of earth covered by the oceans are part of the plates of the earth.
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What is the original definition for plate tectonics?
Originally it was thought that the earth's lithosphere (crust) was made of individual plates that are broken down into over a dozen large and small pieces of rock. These fragmented plates collided with, slid under or moved past adjacent plates. This is what shaped the earth's landscape.
Why do volcanos occur more at locations where two plates meet?
The reason this occurs is because of subduction. The heat of the plates rubbing causes magma to rise forcing through the lithosphere (or crust). Thus causing alot of volcanos over convergent plates.
What is the earth's layer of solid rock that flows under pressure?
The solid layer of the earth that can still flow is called the asthenosphere. This layer is located in the mantle of the earth the layer below the upper crust and lithosphere, home of the tectonic plates.
What do tectonic plates lay directly under what?
magma.
How do plate tectonics causes earthquakes?
The concept of plate tectonics has revolutionized the explanation about how earthquakes occur in Earth Sciences. Plate tectonics tells us that the Earth's rigid outer shell (lithosphere) is broken into a mosaic of oceanic and continental plates which can slide over the plastic aesthenosphere, which is the uppermost layer of the mantle. The plates are in constant motion. Where they interact, along their margins, important geological processes take place, such as the formation of mountain belts, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
Do the plates include the lithosphere under the oceans?
Yes. The surface of earth covered by the oceans are part of the plates of the earth.
Do the Plates include the lithosphere under the ocean?
Yes, several of the plates have their margins under the oceans. The Pacific Plate would be the plate with the largest area under the seas.
Rifting under water?
seperations of plates forming oceans
Is the crust a layer of rocks under the plate or is the crust the plates?
The crust is the layer at the surface that forms the upper part of the plates. The plates also include a portion of the upper mantle just beneath the crust. Together, the crust and this upper portion of the mantle form the lithosphere.
Is the oceanic lithosphere denser?
No. Oceanic plates are denser than conitnental plates.
Do oceanic plates lie under oceans?
yes
What is a subduction in geological terms?
it when one of tectonic plates (lithosphere) descends under another plate (asthenosphere)
What are moving pieces under the earths surface that form the earths crust?
The answer is tectonic plates floating on the lithosphere. Does that answer your question? LOL :)
What are the earths plates made of?
parts of the crust and upper mantle
Which process is currently accepted explanation of the movement of drifting continents?
the convection currents in the mantle under the earths curst is moving the broken plates in earths lithosphere causing the plates slide across the lithosphere. this process is called tectonics. (jon lay wrote this,)
How are tsunami linked to earthquake?
The Earth's plates rub against each other. Some plates are under oceans and this causes terrible waves.
How do plates move where convection currents are risig?
The lithosphere is the continental crust, oceanic crust and upper part of the mantle. The convection currents move in the mantle mostly in the Asthenosphere layer under the lithosphere. As the convention currents move it makes the lithosphere spread and shake.
