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When tectonic plates push the crust downward, the land feature that forms is called a "trough" or "rift." This process can create valleys or basins where the land is depressed between higher elevations. In some cases, this can also contribute to the formation of geological features like pull-apart basins or oceanic trenches.
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What is the Earth's crust broken into large pieces called?
They are called plates!
What are the giant pieces of the earth's crust called?
plates
What is Another Name For The Plates That Move Around?
If you mean for the plates that are the earth's crust they are called 'Tectonic Plates'.
What are breaks in the earth's crust where plates meet called?
Breaks in the Earth's crust where plates meet are called plate boundaries. These boundaries are classified into three types: divergent, convergent, and transform boundaries, depending on the motion of the plates.
What are large blocks of crust called?
plates There are continental plates (thick and made of granite) and oceanic plates (thin and made of basalt).
What is the Earth's crust broken into large pieces called?
They are called plates!
What can tectonic plates also be called instead of tectonic plates?
Tectonic plates are also "Continental Crust" and "Oceanic Crust". Also lithospheric plates.
What are the giant pieces of the earth's crust called?
plates
What do the plates on the earth crust float on?
There called tectonic plates, and they do not float on anything.
What do the plates on the Earth's crust float on?
There called tectonic plates, and they do not float on anything.
Tectonic plates float on a layer of the earth called the?
The outer layer of the earth where the land masses are is called the crust
What are large sections of the Earth's crust called?
Plates
What is Another Name For The Plates That Move Around?
If you mean for the plates that are the earth's crust they are called 'Tectonic Plates'.
What are the moving plates of the earth crust called?
They are called plate tectonics.
What do the plates that form the earths crust float on?
There called tectonic plates, and they do not float on anything.
Where two plates meet , this is called a?
Places, where plates meet, are called plate boundaries. There are seven significant plates along with countless minor plates. You can see that a plate can be made of both oceanic crust and continental crust. Interactions between the plates change our planet.
When continental plates collide what happens to the oceanic crust between them?
When continental plates collide, the denser oceanic crust is usually subducted beneath the less dense continental crust. This process can create subduction zones, where the oceanic crust is forced downward into the mantle. The oceanic crust may melt or be recycled back into the mantle in these subduction zones.
