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What is formed when one tectonic plate slide under another tectonic plate?
CassieRozic
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.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 13y agoThis is a convergent plate boundary and where one tectonic plate is forced under another is known as a subduction zone.
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∙ 14y agoA Subduction Zone is when one plate collides into another one, causing one plate to dive under the other and get pulled down towards the core of the planet.
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What makes Earthquakes happened?
Tectonic plates shifting around while bumping into another tectonic plate. When the plates slide pass each other, it creates a transform boundary which makes earthquakes.
What causes colliding plates?
tectonic movement can cause tectonic plates to collide, drift apart, or slide across one another
What faulting in earthquakes?
A fault is a break in Earth's crust along which blocks of rock slide relative to one another. A fault can occur within a tectonic plate's boundaries. Boundaries between tectonic plates are always faults.
What is the name of the two plates that slide past each other rubbing against each other and creates earthquakes?
pacific and north American plate! San Andreas fault!
What are the volcano prone areas of the world?
There are many areas around the world where volcanoes reside. Most volcanoes are near plate boundaries (see "what are tectonic plates?") because this is where lava from the mantle is forced upward, to the surface. Volcanoes formed in the middle of plates are formed from "hot spots", regions where hot rock and magma are forced to the surface from deep in the mantle in tube-like formations. As plates slide across these hot spots, lines of volcanoes are formed.
What type of plate boundaries where 2 plates slide?
A Transform Boundary Is When Two Tectonic Plates Slide By One Another
What happens when one tectonic plate slides against another?
An earthquake or tremmor may happen if the slide is strong enough.
How might two tectonic plates interact with each other?
They can collide with each otherOne plate may slide under another plate.They can slide past each other
What makes an earthquake?
Tectonic plates shifting around while bumping into another tectonic plate. When the plates slide pass each other, it creates a transform boundary which makes earthquakes.
What makes Earthquakes happened?
Tectonic plates shifting around while bumping into another tectonic plate. When the plates slide pass each other, it creates a transform boundary which makes earthquakes.
What are plates that slide underneath another?
tectonic plates
What do tectonic plates do at transform plate boundaries?
They slide past each other horizontally.
What is a plate called that slide past each other?
I believe that you are thinking of tectonic plates.
How did mt tambora form?
Mount aconcagua was formed by a plate subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath the South American plate.
Does plate slide under another plate at a divergent plate boundary?
Yes it does!
What tectonic setting produces earthquakes such as the San Francisco earthquake?
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake occurred at a transform plate boundary, where two plates slide past one another.
These are formed when oceanic plates slide under continental plates?
When oceanic plates slide under continental plates they form subduction zones. Subduction zones always occur at convergent boundaries where one plate slides beneath another plate.
