Convection cells form when warm material rises, cools, and eventually sink down. This rising and sinking pattern causes the plates to move.
Convection in the mantle creates movement of tectonic plates, which can affect the lithosphere by causing it to move, leading to processes like subduction or seafloor spreading. The convection cells help drive the movement of the lithospheric plates on the Earth's surface.
Convection is the transfer of heat through the movement of a fluid, such as a liquid or gas. In the Earth's mantle, hot magma rises near the core, is cooled near the surface, and then sinks back down. This continuous cycle of rising and sinking creates convection currents that drag tectonic plates along with them, causing the plates to move.
The motion of the continental plates on Earth is primarily driven by the process of mantle convection. Heat from Earth's core causes the rock in the mantle to slowly move, creating convection currents that push and pull the plates along with them. This movement leads to the drifting and collision of the plates, shaping the Earth's surface over millions of years.
When convection currents sink near the mantle, they create drag on the lithospheric plates above. This drag causes the plates to move in the direction of the sinking current. As the plates move, they can interact with other plates, leading to processes like subduction or mountain formation.
The theory of plate tectonics explains the movement of plates by convection cells in the Earth's mantle. These convection cells are caused by the heat from the Earth's core, which creates movement in the semi-fluid asthenosphere layer of the mantle, leading to the movement of the rigid lithospheric plates above it.
It will move the tectonic plates
It will move the tectonic plates
Tectonic plates influence earthquakes because of convection cells that move the plates around. When the plates collide, they cause a shockwave of energy released in the form of a earthquake.
No, convection currents in the upper mantle cause tectonic plates to move.
Convection in the mantle creates movement of tectonic plates, which can affect the lithosphere by causing it to move, leading to processes like subduction or seafloor spreading. The convection cells help drive the movement of the lithospheric plates on the Earth's surface.
convection currents!
there is convection in the mantle. it causes the plates to move.
The upper mantle contains convection currents that move the tectonic plates.
They move towards each other.
They move apart.
because of convection currents in the mantle
They are the means by which plates of the lithoshpere move.