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What is the process by which new oceanic lithosphere is created as older materials are pulled away?
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The subduction process
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What is slabpull?
Slab Pull Force occurs when a denser oceanic plate is forced beneath a less dense continental plate or oceanic plate in a process called subduction. It's the force caused by suction of the cold dense lithosphere into the asthenosphere at destructive margins. Basically, because lithosphere is denser than asthenosphere, there is gravitational imbalance which is passed on to the crust. this causes the lithosphere to be sucked inwards at the oceanic trenches into deep asthenosphere.
What is the process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises to earth's surface and solidifies at a mid-ocean ridge?
seafloor spreading
What is the process of thrusting oceanic lithosphere into the mantle along a convergent plate boundary called?
First of all it is NOT a process of thrusting. It is a process of convection and in terms of plate tectonics, it is called "subduction".
The rock cycle is a continuous process that changes materials found?
in both the Earth's lithosphere and the Earth's mantle.
What is the process where new oceanic lithosphere formed?
New oceanic crust is created at the mid-ocean ridges where rift volcanoes feed solidifying magma from the asthenosphere to both sides of the divergent plate boundaries. The mid-ocean ridge marks the line where heat from the Earth's interior is being carried to the surface by convection currents in the mantle. At the opposite end of the convection currents, colder, denser, and older oceanic crust is being drawn down into the asthenosphere, the birth to death of oceanic crust occurring in roughly 150 million year cycles.
What is slabpull?
Slab Pull Force occurs when a denser oceanic plate is forced beneath a less dense continental plate or oceanic plate in a process called subduction. It's the force caused by suction of the cold dense lithosphere into the asthenosphere at destructive margins. Basically, because lithosphere is denser than asthenosphere, there is gravitational imbalance which is passed on to the crust. this causes the lithosphere to be sucked inwards at the oceanic trenches into deep asthenosphere.
What is the process by which plate tectonics produces new oceanic lithosphere at ocean ridges called?
Seafloor Spreading.
What is the process called when the oceanic plates slide down the slope of lithosphere-asthenospher boundary?
Ridge Push.
What is the process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises to earth's surface and solidifies at a mid-ocean ridge?
seafloor spreading
What is the process that creates new oceanic lithosphere at mild ocean ridges?
check out nasa dude have some common sense stupid you
What is the process of thrusting oceanic lithosphere into the mantle along a convergent plate boundary called?
First of all it is NOT a process of thrusting. It is a process of convection and in terms of plate tectonics, it is called "subduction".
The rock cycle is a continuous process that changes materials found?
in both the Earth's lithosphere and the Earth's mantle.
What is the process where new oceanic lithosphere formed?
New oceanic crust is created at the mid-ocean ridges where rift volcanoes feed solidifying magma from the asthenosphere to both sides of the divergent plate boundaries. The mid-ocean ridge marks the line where heat from the Earth's interior is being carried to the surface by convection currents in the mantle. At the opposite end of the convection currents, colder, denser, and older oceanic crust is being drawn down into the asthenosphere, the birth to death of oceanic crust occurring in roughly 150 million year cycles.
Which is thicker the earth's crust or the lithosphere?
the lithosphere because the earth's crust is the thinest layer of the earth so by process and elimination lithosphere has to be the answer...
What happens when a tectonic plate carrying oceanic crust collides with a tectonic plate carrying continental crust?
If the plates are moving at each other from directly opposite directions, the denser oceanic crust will subduct, or slide under the less dense continental crust, eventually melting back into the mantle. The hot gasses and pressure created by the melting process will seek release in the form of a volcano! :D
Is new oceanic crust formed at a mid-ocean ridge?
The answer to that question is the following:=Magma rises toward the surface and solidifies=
Why volcano is a geomorphic process?
it moves crustal materials from place to place
