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They grind against each other, the friction causing large slabs to stick to each other. When the movement overcomes the friction holding them together, the large slabs can snap into their new positions like a stretched piece of rubber being let go of, releasing tremendous amounts of energy and resulting in earthquakes.
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What two plates are colliding?
The Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate are currently colliding, forming the Himalayan mountain range.
The kind of plates that cause mountains to form?
Tectonic plates are responsible for the formation of mountains. When two tectonic plates collide, the force can cause the Earth's crust to uplift and fold, resulting in the formation of mountain ranges. This process is known as orogeny.
Convergent boundaries can be divided into 3 categories what are these categories and what geological feature are created by each?
The categories are a continental and a continental plate colliding, continental and oceanic plates colliding, and oceanic and oceanic plates colliding. The two continental plates form mountains. The continental and oceanic plated colliding cause subduction zones and volcanoes. Oceanic and oceanic plates colliding form a trench.
Would contact metamorphism or regional metamorphism be a product of 2 plates colliding?
Regional metamorphism would be the product of two plates colliding. The intense pressure and temperature generated during plate collision can create regional metamorphism, which affects a larger area and involves the recrystallization of rocks. Contact metamorphism, on the other hand, is caused by heat from a nearby magma intrusion and affects rocks in a localized area.
What type of plate boundary occurs when two plates move towards each other?
This is called a convergent boundary, because the two plates are converging, or coming together.
What is the term for two plates that are colliding?
convergent plate boundaries
What created the Himalayan mountains?
Two tectonic plates colliding .
What tectonic plates are colliding?
The movement or action of the plate determines what type it is. When two plates collide, they are creating a convergent boundary. Therefore you could state that they are convergent (or colliding) tectonic plates.
What two plates are colliding?
The Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate are currently colliding, forming the Himalayan mountain range.
What is colliding boundary?
these boundaries are formed when two plates collide. When the two plate bump one plate is absorbed in the mantle of the other. Heat and pressure when these plates collide causes volcanoes and earthquakes.
What is called when two plates collide and one pushes upwards?
Two plates colliding and one being pushed upwards is called subduction.
Mountain ranges are often formed as a result of?
two plates of equal weight colliding
The boundaries between two colliding plates are called .?
The boundaries between two colliding plates is called a convergent boundary. Earthquakes and volcanoes are common near convergent boundaries, a result of pressure, friction, and plate material melting in the mantle.
What would happens when two of the plates of the earth's crust are colliding together?
I pretty sure that is creates an earthquake.
What do two plates of equal density form mountain ranges along?
Along their colliding (convergent) boundary.
What is the definition of colliding boundary?
these boundaries are formed when two plates collide. When the two plate bump one plate is absorbed in the mantle of the other. Heat and pressure when these plates collide causes volcanoes and earthquakes.
What is name of volcano that is caused by two oceanic plates colliding?
Trench volcano, resulting in island arc volcanic mountain chains.
