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What type of faulting results from expansive stresses?
Normal faulting results from expansive stresses, where the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall due to tensional forces pulling the plates apart. This type of faulting is common at divergent plate boundaries where new crust is being formed.
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 can form when compression squeezes rocks at convergent boundary?
When compression squeezes rocks at a convergent boundary, it can lead to the formation of mountain ranges through processes like folding and faulting. The intense pressure causes rocks to deform and change their structure, resulting in the uplift of crustal blocks and the creation of towering peaks. Over time, erosion can further shape these mountains into diverse landforms.
What type of plate boundary causes volcanic eruptions?
There are two plate boundaries that cause volcanoes. They are the divergent and convergent plate boundaries.
What is A common stress regime at a transform plate boundary?
Shear stress: At a transform boundary, two plates are moving past each other, either in opposite directions or both in the same direction but at differing speeds. As the boundary between the two plates is not perfectly smooth there will be some interlocking along the boundary. As the plates continue to move and this interlocking resists movement, shear stresses develop.
What is the most common type of deformation at transform plate boundary?
Strike-Slip Faulting
What type of plate boundry causes shearing?
The type of boundary that causes shearing is transform boundary.
A convergent boundary causes what stress type?
A convergent boundary causes compressional stress.
What type of fault caused the 8.8 Chile quake?
Thrust faulting at a convergent boundary where subduction is occurring. Please see the related question for more information.
What type of plate of plate boundary causes mountains?
Convergent Boundaries.
When plate movement causes rocks to break it's called .?
At the region between the two plates, called a transform boundary, pent-up energy builds in the rock. A fault line, a break in the Earth's crust where blocks of crust are moving in different directions, will form. Most, though not all, earthquakes happen along transform boundary fault lines.
Why are normal faults common along divergent boundary's?
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What kind of plate boundary causes mountains to form?
The plate boundary that causes mountains to form is called a convergent boundary.
What happens during faulting?
What happens during faulting is that there is some kind of sudden pressure put on a section of crust. This causes it to break or crack, causing a fault.
Rifting and normal faulting are characteristic of what type of plate boundary?
Rifting and normal faulting are characteristic of divergent plate boundaries, where tectonic plates are moving apart from each other. This process creates new crust as magma rises to the surface and solidifies, leading to the formation of mid-ocean ridges on the seafloor.
When plate movement causes rocks to break what is is called?
actually convection is wrong the correct answer would be called faulting
What type of plate boundary causes a tornado?
Tornadoes are a a phenomenon of weather, not geology. Their occurrence has nothing to do with plate boundaries.
