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What is it called when two oceanic plates move apart and new crust is formed?
This process is called seafloor spreading. As the two plates move apart, magma rises from the mantle to create new crust at the mid-ocean ridge. This process helps explain the movement of Earth's tectonic plates and the reshaping of the ocean floor.
What happens when two plates move apart from each other?
When two plates move apart from each other, it creates a divergent boundary. Magma from the mantle rises to fill the gap, solidifies, and forms new crust. This process is called seafloor spreading and is responsible for the formation of mid-ocean ridges.
Long crack that forms as two tectonic plates move apart?
A long, linear crack that forms as two tectonic plates move apart is called a mid-ocean ridge. This type of boundary is where new oceanic crust is created as molten rock rises up from the mantle and solidifies along the spreading center. Over time, as the plates continue to move apart, the new crust forms a continuous ridge on the ocean floor.
What forms when two lithospheric plates move apart?
When two lithospheric plates move apart, a divergent boundary is formed. This process results in the creation of new oceanic crust as magma rises to fill the gap between the plates, forming a mid-ocean ridge.
When two tectonic plates are pulling away from each other is called?
When two plates slide apart from each other, it is known as divergent boundaries. As the continent splits, a ridge forms at the spreading center, stretches the ocean basin, causing it to expand and the plate area increases causing many small volcanoes or light earthquakes.
What is it called when two plates are pulling apart in the middle of a continent?
divergent boundary
Underwater mountains chains that forms where two tectonic plates are pulling are called?
Underwater mountain chains that form where two tectonic plates are pulling apart are called mid ocean ridges. The largest is the Mid Atlantic Ridge.
What is it called when two lithospheric plates move apart?
Continental Plates
What are two tectonic plates pulling away called?
Divergent plates. They form a divergent plate boundary.
What is a pulling apart force called?
A pulling apart force is typically called tension. This force occurs when two objects are being pulled away from each other.
What trenches cause?
The thing that causes oceanic trenches would be two ocean plates pulling apart. This would leave a space in between the plates that is the trench.
What is is the boundary when two plates that are moving apart?
It is called a divergent plate boundary.
What two tectonic plates are pulling away pulling away?
Divergent plates. They form a divergent plate boundary.
The stress force that pulls on the crust where two plates are moving apart is called .?
tension
Where is seafloor being created?
The mid-atlantic Ridge. There, two tectonic plates are pulling apart, and magma from the mantle rises to the space between these two plates. This magma is cooled instantly, becoming a new ocean floor.
What is it called when two ocean plates move apart and new crust is formed?
Seafloor spreading
What is the process that pulls apart continents?
Plate tectonics. Sub layers called tectonic plates lie underneath continents move, shift, and grind against or away from each other. The actual process of pulling apart is called diverging. The super-continent Pangaea is an example of a continent that was pulled apart. First it was pulled apart into two continents that are called Laurasia and Gondwana and then was pulled farther apart into the world that we see today.
