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What is stress at a divergent plate boundary called?

Stress at a divergent plate boundary is called tensional stress. This stress creates pulling forces that lead to the plates moving away from each other, resulting in the formation of new oceanic crust.


What is a Stress at a divergent stress boundary?

This is known as tensile stress.


What is a boundary where 2 plates move apart?

It is called a divergent plate boundary.


What types of stress occurs at a divergent plate boundary?

Tensional stress


What boundary is it called when new crust is being formed?

Divergent Boundary, (Constructive Boundary).


Which type of boundaries is seafloor created by?

Seafloor is created at divergent plate boundaries called the mid-ocean ridges.


The area of two neighboring tectonic plates move away from one another is called a what boundary?

A. Divergent


What type of boundary is formed when plate separate?

Divergent boundary is formed


What is is the boundary when two plates that are moving apart?

It is called a divergent plate boundary.


A divergent boundary causes what type of stress?

A divergent boundary causes tensional stress, where tectonic plates are moving away from each other. This stress results in the stretching and thinning of the Earth's crust, leading to the formation of new crust through volcanic activity and seafloor spreading.


What type of boundary occurs between the max a plate and the South American plate?

Convergent on the western perimeter, divergent on the Easter perimeter.


What is a sentence with the word divergent boundary?

Often, a divergent boundary within a continent will produce rifts, which will produce rift valleys. A divergent boundary may also be referred to as an extensional boundary, a constructive boundary, or a divergent plate boundary.