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During the rock cycle, subduction occurs when one tectonic plate is forced beneath another into the Earth's mantle. This process leads to the melting of the subducted rock due to the high temperatures and pressures in the mantle. As a result, the materials can be reformed and eventually rise back to the surface as magma, contributing to volcanic activity or forming new rocks. This continuous cycle of transformation and recycling is essential for the dynamic nature of the Earth's crust.
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How does sea floor spreading make the continents move?
Under the oceanic crust is the layer of the earth called the mantle. This layer is moving rock that is very, very hot! As the hot material in the mantle pushes up through the crust in the sea floor, it cools and becomes new crust as it pushes out (spreads) the sea floor. This movement in the plates causes other plates (continental and oceanic) to move as well. This is how sea floor spreading causes continents to move.
Counteract pressure that pushes and pulls at the side of a building during an earthquake?
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When an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate is the oceanic plate forced down into the mantle?
An earthquake is made. Shock waves move in all directions from that place ( which is called the focus) and then it reaches the ground. This point is called the epicenter. The earth then starts violently shaking.
What type of plate boundaries do stratovolcanoes occur?
At constructive plate margins (where two plate slide away from each other) or a destructive plate boundary (where two plates slide together), volcanoes do not occur at a conservative plate margin. Hope this helps
What pushes and pulles on the Earth's crust?
Gravity.
What pushes from inside the earth?
The mantle convection currents push and move tectonic plates from inside the Earth. This movement helps drive plate tectonics and shape the Earth's surface through processes like subduction and seafloor spreading.
What is the difference between subduction and convection?
not related subduction is when some one sexually seduces you Doh!! Ok wow um your thinking about seduction. This person is asking subduction lol. ok so anyways, convection is when the upper mantle pushes magma through an opening in the crust, which becomes new land on ocean ridges. Subduction is when two plates clash and one slides under the other and turns to magma in the upper mantle.
What force pushes upward on the continental crust What force pushes downward?
The force pushing upward on the continental crust is isostatic rebound, caused by the buoyancy of the less dense continental crust floating on the denser mantle. The downward force is from the weight of the overlying rock and sediments, as well as tectonic forces like subduction or compression.
What happens to an oceanic plate as it pushes against a continental plate and sinks?
As the oceanic plate pushes against the continental plate, it forms a subduction zone where it sinks beneath the continental plate due to its greater density. This process can create deep ocean trenches, earthquakes, and volcanic activity as the sinking plate melts and interacts with the mantle.
What pushes and pulls in the Earth's crust?
Seismic currents in the earth's mantle.
What is the process whereby the weight of an uplift ocean ridge pushes an oceanic plate toward a subduction zone?
The weight of the uplifted ocean ridge creates a downward force on the oceanic plate, causing it to be pushed towards a subduction zone. As the plate moves, it eventually descends into the mantle at the subduction zone due to gravitational forces, leading to the formation of a deep ocean trench.
How are the parts of a convection current in the mantle related to the plate motions?
Convection currents in the mantle drive the movement of tectonic plates at the Earth's surface. As the hot mantle material rises, it pushes the plates apart at mid-ocean ridges. As the material cools and sinks back into the mantle, it pulls the plates down at subduction zones, creating a cycle that drives plate motion.
Describe the mechanism of plate motion?
Plate motion is primarily driven by the process of mantle convection beneath the Earth's lithosphere. Heat from the Earth's core causes material in the mantle to move in a circular pattern, exerting forces on the tectonic plates above. This causes the plates to move, resulting in processes such as subduction, seafloor spreading, and continental drift.
How does heat transfer from the mantle relate to the movement of earths crust?
Heat transfer from the mantle creates convection currents that drive the movement of Earth's crustal plates. As hotter mantle material rises, it pushes the crust apart at mid-ocean ridges, while cooler material sinks, pulling the crust down in subduction zones. This movement of the crust is known as plate tectonics.
When one tectonic plate pushes underneath another what kind of boundary forms?
subduction zone or continental plate
Why is the earths crust always moving?
Simple- Convection in the mantle causes mantle to slowly move, and it pushes against the crust. As it does this, the tectonic plates move.
How magma moves upward though a volcano and reaches the surface during an eruption?
The inside of the earth (Mantle) pushes the hot magma liquid and makes the magma move toward the surface.
