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IN GENERAL...
Divergent Plate Movement (plates move away from each other)-
Continental and continental, oceanic and oceanic
-Constructive Plate Boundary
Convergent Plate Movement (plates move towards each other)-
Continental and Oceanic, Oceanic and Oceanic, Continental and Continental
-Destructive Plate Boundary
Transform Plate Movement (plates sliding past each other)-
Continental and Continental
-Conservative Plate Boundary
DIVERGENT PLATE MOVEMENT
When plates move apart, magma wells up from Earth's mantle to form a new ocean floor with mid-oceanic ridges.
It is a constructive plate boundary because new land crust is being created.
O & O (Oceanic and Oceanic)
Oceanic Ridges and Submarine volcanoes are formed. Shallow earthquakes may occur and there may be volcanic activity.
Magma from the deeper mantle wells up into the gap formed when two oceanic plates move away from each other, and some of it melts and is erupted on the surface as lava, while others are injected near the surface to crystallize as other igneous rocks.
The seafloor may also spread, and magma rises to the floor and solidify, forming new crust. Therefore it is a constructive plate boundary as new crust is formed and added to the ocean floor. An example of the resulting landforms would be the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
C & C (Continental and Continental)
When two continental plates move away from each other, a sea is formed. E.g. Red Sea.
CONVERGENT PLATE MOVEMENT
When plates move towards each other, they may collide.
When 2 oceanic plates collide, plate edges are bent into a deep trench called thesubduction zone. It is a destructive plate boundary because the subducted plate is destroyed in the process.
O & O
Subduction takes place, and the over-riding plate (the plate above) folds and form islands, whilst the heavier plate sinks into the mantle of the Earth and is melted away by the magma. The magma rises and forms volcanoes. E.g. Japan.
C & O
When an oceanic plate collide with a continental plate, the oceanic plate sinks as it has a larger density. Lithosphere materials from the oceanic crust are subducted in the trench whilst the continental border is fractured, folded and uplifted. Magma rises and a mountain accompanied by volcanic activity are formed.
E.g. Andes Mountains.
C & C
When two continental plates collide, neither sinks because they have similar densities. The continental lithosphere buckles and is uplifted instead, forming fold mountains. Little volcanic activity occur as rocks from the lithosphere do not sink deep into the asthenosphere (upper mantle zone) Earthquakes, faulting and folding however, are common.
E.g. Himalayas.
TRANSFORM PLATE MOVEMENT
Occurs when two plates slip past each other. Tear faults form, accompanied by earthquakes due to great amount of stress built up in these areas, but there is little volcanic activity and little crustal material is destroyed.
It is a convergent boundary The subduction of the pacific plate underneath the west coast of South America creates the uplift and volcanoes that is still producing the Andean mountain range. A divergent boundary would create a mid-ocean ridge, or somthing akin to the great rift valley in Africa.
Usually in convergent plate boundary scenarios.
Divergent plate boundary.
a divergent plate boundary.
The Andes Mountains were formed through subduction of the oceanic plate underneath the South American plate.
what is the type of plate boundary? divergent, convergent, and transform
divergent plate boundary- a boundary where two plates move apart from each other. convergent plate boundary- a boundary where two plates move towards each other so that one plate can sink beneath the other. transform plate boundary- a boundary where one plate slips along side another plate.
No but is it on a divergent plate boundary
Convergent plate boundary, divergent plate boundary and strike-slip (transform) plate boundary.
It was formed from the volcanism created by a subducting oceanic plate at a convergent plate boundary.
Convergent on the western perimeter, divergent on the Easter perimeter.
Its along a divergent plate boundary.
Vesuvius is associated with a convergent boundary between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate.
The Mariana Trench is a convergent plate boundary.
A plate is not classified as convergent, divergent, or transform, a plate boundary i.e. a boundary between plates is. All three types of plate boundary can be found along the edges of the North American plate.
I believe the red sea is located at a divergent plate boundary.
Krakatoa is an convergent boundary with a subduction zone