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Plates beneath the earths crust are located where?
The Earth's crust is made of plates which float on the Earth's mantle. They are located on the entire planetary surface. Even oceans lie on top of plates.
What is an continental crust?
the continental crust is the plate crust formed under the continent (less density) as opposed to oceanic crustformed under the ocean(higher density)
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 Compare and contrast oceanic crust with continental crust both types of crust?
The surface of the earth that is found on the continents is called the continental crust, which has a thickness of around 25 to 70 km. This crust is made up of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks, and that together make up the structure of our continents. As the name implies, oceanic crust is the floor of the oceans. Obviously, this crust is thinner than the continental crust. The major type of rocks making up oceanic crust is basalt. In general, the thickness of oceanic crust is around 7 to 10 km. what they have in common is continental and oceanic crust are both destroyed in subduction zones and lie atop Earth's mantle, though they differ in thickness, density, age and chemical composition.
Where are all of the tectonic plates located?
plates that shift under the surface of the earth on lavareferring to the theory of plate tectonicsUnder all the 5 continents. You might think that there are 7 or 6 but there is a tectonic plate under both South America and North America, then on for Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceana and Antarctica
Do oceanic plates lie under oceans?
yes
How many plate lie under the pacific ocean?
12
What is the effect of a hot spot on an existing volcano?
They will all dies xdHot spot often lie in the middle of continental or oceanic plates far from any plate boundaries.
Where does the neritic zone of the ocean lie?
The neritic zone is the body of water that overlies the continental shelf. It comes before the oceanic zone (the open ocean) and lies above the littoral zone.
Does the mid-ocean ridge lie completely under water?
Yes
What does the Atlantic Ocean lie on?
The floors of the oceans, under the sea-bed silt, are primarily basalt, forming a crazy-paving of "Plates" surrounding the granite Continental Plates. Together they form the Earth's Crust, and the latter plates are constantly shuffling around the globe, with the ocean plates being formed and destroyed to accommodate this Continental Drift. The suite of processes is called Plate Tectonics, and although overall of great benefit to life on Earth, the local effects are often extremely destructive earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
WHere does the sea lie?
The sea lies on top of the Oceanic crust.
What tectonic plates does Kashmir lie on?
convergent
What ocean does Hawaii lie?
The Pacific Ocean.
Why do most earthquakes occur only in isolated regions?
The west Pacific Ocean earthquakes usually occur along the joins in the continental plates which lie offshore in most cases.
Where arctic ocean is lie?
where arctic ocean lies
What ocean does Vietnam lie along?
On the Pacific Ocean.
