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.
Underground plates are called tectonic plates. These plates are large pieces of the Earth's lithosphere that move and interact with each other, causing phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
The plates that make up the Earth's crust are called tectonic plates. These plates float on the semi-fluid asthenosphere underneath and interact with each other at plate boundaries, causing various geological phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanic activity.
Tectonic plates move and interact with each other due to the Earth's internal heat causing convection currents in the mantle. This movement leads to the plates either colliding, pulling apart, or sliding past each other, which can result in earthquakes, volcanic activity, and the formation of mountains and oceanic trenches.
The pieces of the Earth's crust are called tectonic plates. These plates float on the semi-fluid layer of the Earth's mantle and interact with each other, causing movements such as earthquakes and volcanic activity.
The Earth's outer layer, or lithosphere, is broken into sections called tectonic plates. These plates float on top of the semi-fluid asthenosphere beneath them and interact with each other at plate boundaries, causing movements such as earthquakes and volcanic activity.
they are formed by two tectonic plates pulling away from each other
Divergent Plate Boundary. A Rift Valley forms between the two plates.
Underground plates are called tectonic plates. These plates are large pieces of the Earth's lithosphere that move and interact with each other, causing phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Convergent Boundary
They are called a Plate Boundaries :)
The plates that make up the Earth's crust are called tectonic plates. These plates float on the semi-fluid asthenosphere underneath and interact with each other at plate boundaries, causing various geological phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanic activity.
Mid-ocean ridges
The force that pulls apart the crust is called tensional or extensional tectonic stress, which occurs at divergent plate boundaries where tectonic plates move away from each other. This pulling force can lead to the formation of rift valleys and mid-ocean ridges.
I believe that you are thinking of tectonic plates.
I'm guessing you're talking about the tectonic plates? Divergence.
Tectonic plates move and interact with each other due to the Earth's internal heat causing convection currents in the mantle. This movement leads to the plates either colliding, pulling apart, or sliding past each other, which can result in earthquakes, volcanic activity, and the formation of mountains and oceanic trenches.
It creates a mid ocean ridge, the two plates pulling apart is called a divergent boundary.