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slab pull
Henry Feeney
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Plate motion due to the heating and cooling of rocks?
Convection
Was the haiti earthquake on a conservative plate boundary?
Yes it is, due to the force of the plate sliding by each other.
What is formed when one tectonic plate slide under another tectonic plate?
Depends on the type of tectonic plate. If it is two continental plates, usually a mountain range will be formed and the plates will 'lock' together due to their thickness. The Indian sub-continent colliding with the eurasian plate is one example. If an oceanic plate is subducting under a continental plate an island arc can be formed or mountain range such as Japan and the Andies mountains respectively. This type is also where volcanoes will be commonly found unlike the collision of two continental plates, due to the magma formed from the subduction of the oceanic plate. If two oceanic plates collide, usually form an oceanic mountain range and lock together similar to the continental plates.
How do you change the antifreeze in your 2000 Tahoe 5.7L 4X4 Z71--you can't even see the drain plug due to the skid plate?
either remove skid plate or disconnect the bottom radiator hose and dump the coolant
What energy resources is most likely to be abundant in California due to its position on a plate boundary wind nuclear solar or geothermal.?
geothermal
What is the plate motion due to higher densities called?
slab pull
Compare and contrast ridge-push and slab-pull?
Ridge push is a proposed mechanism for plate motion in plate tectonics. Because mid-ocean ridges lie at a higher elevation than the rest of the ocean floor, gravity causes the ridge to push on the lithosphere that lies farther from the ridge.Slab Pull is is tectonic plate motion due to higher densities. Plate motion is partly driven by the weight of cold, dense plates sinking into the mantle at trenches.
What slab pull describe?
Slab pull is the force which is caused by the sinking of the cold, dense lithosphere into the mantle. It is considered as one of the two major driving forces for the movements of tectonic plates.
Plate motion due to gravity is what?
ridge push
What is the plate motion due gravity?
Ridge Push
What Plate motion due to gravity?
ridge push
What is the plate motion due to gravity?
Ridge Push
What plate motion due to the heating and cooling of rocks?
convection
Plate motion due to the heating and cooling of rocks?
Convection
What part of the earth in motion due to density?
The ocean currents move because of different densities caused by ocean temperatures and salinity.
Explain plate tectonics and the mechansim of continental drift?
Plate tectonics describes the motion of the Earth's lithosphere which brings about continental drift due to convection currents.
Why is plate tectonics a suitable name for the study of plate motion. Explain?
It is a suitable name because tectonics comes from the Greek word tekton which means builder, and plate tectonics refers to the building of the features on Earth's surface due to deformation caused by plate movements...
