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These are formed when oceanic plates slide under continental plates?
Subduction zones are formed when oceanic plates slide beneath continental plates. The process leads to the oceanic plate being forced into the Earth's mantle. This can result in the formation of deep oceanic trenches and volcanic activity at the surface.
Develops when one plate slides under another?
When one plate slides under another, volcano's develop. The colliding plates cause a rupture on the earth's surface, allowing hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
What is the name of the type of boundary where one tectonic plate slides under another tectonic plates?
The type of boundary where one tectonic plate slides under another is called a convergent boundary. This process is known as subduction, where one plate is forced beneath the other due to differences in density.
What forms when one plate slides past another plate?
When one tectonic plate slides past another, it can create a transform boundary. At this boundary, the plates grind against each other, causing earthquakes. The San Andreas Fault in California is a well-known example of a transform boundary.
What is the relation between rising and sinking material in the earths interior and subduction and rifting?
Rising material in Earth's interior typically leads to rifting, where tectonic plates move apart. This process creates new crust. Sinking material, on the other hand, is associated with subduction, where one tectonic plate slides beneath another, leading to the destruction of crust.
When two continental plates collide sometimes one plate slides beneath the other in a process known as subduction. When one continental plate slides beneath another......?
material from the Earth's surface is returned to the interior.
Why are mountains and earthquakes two geologic features found on earths surface that are caused by the movement of crustal plates?
They are geologic features because when the crustal plates move its makes cracks on earth the the mountains are one because everytime the crustal plates move it breaks the earths surface and the dirt and rocks start gathering together
How do tectonic plates converge?
Mountain building like the Himalayas. Or one plate slides under another.
What happens to the sliding plate when it slides under another plate?
When a sliding plate slides under another plate, it usually causes the plates to buckle due to the pressure and force applied. This can lead to deformation or bending of the plates as they interact with each other. If the force is strong enough, it may also lead to one of the plates getting lifted or displaced.
When plates slides past each other?
earthquake
What happens when one plates slides past another?
When one tectonic plate slides past another, it can create a transform boundary. At this boundary, the plates grind against each other, causing earthquakes due to built-up stress being released. This movement can also lead to the formation of features such as strike-slip faults.
These are formed when oceanic plates slide under continental plates?
Subduction zones are formed when oceanic plates slide beneath continental plates. The process leads to the oceanic plate being forced into the Earth's mantle. This can result in the formation of deep oceanic trenches and volcanic activity at the surface.
What layer of the earths make up these plates and what layer are are the continents sliding on?
The plates on the top of the upper mantle are referred to as the lithosphere, which slides on the asthenosphere.well the mantle causes the continents to move on the ocean floor and sand it makes it slideyea know the crustti is i dont ge ehttt
Where do you call the lithosperic plates slides back into the earth?
Subduction
What is happening to the earths plates at the san Andreas fault?
The San Andreas fault lies along a transform fault line where two of the Earth's plates are sliding past each other. At San Andreas, the Pacific Plate (to the west) slides past the North American Plate (to the east).
Develops when one plate slides under another?
When one plate slides under another, volcano's develop. The colliding plates cause a rupture on the earth's surface, allowing hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
How does gravity change earths surface?
Easy, it makes land slides and mud slides and can change the majority of things on earth by crashing down trees or moving rocks or making a passage way after it dries.
