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What can tectonic plates form when they coverge?
The India plate crashing into the Asia plate caused the formation of the Himalayas. It can also cause subduction, when one plate is pushed beneath the other plate and so pushed back into the molten mantle.
What happens in the mantle that makes the plates move?
In the mantle, there is a process called convection where hot material rises, cools, and then sinks back down. This circulating motion generates forces that cause the tectonic plates above to move. The heat from the Earth's core drives this convection process.
What in the mantle move tectonic plates?
The movement of tectonic plates is primarily driven by the convective flow of molten rock in the upper mantle. This convection occurs due to the heat generated by the radioactive decay of elements within the Earth, which causes the molten rock to rise, cool, and then sink back down, creating a circular motion that drives the movement of tectonic plates.
What happens when two tectonic plates rub back and forth?
When two tectonic plates rub back and forth, they create friction that can cause earthquakes. The pressure from the movement builds up until it is released suddenly, resulting in seismic waves that shake the Earth's surface. These earthquakes can vary in intensity depending on the amount of stress that has built up along the fault line.
Do you think that earthquakes happened million of years ago?
Sure, of course. Millions of years ago, tectonic plates were shifting just as they are today, and shifting tectonic plates can and do cause earthquakes, therefor earthquakes did occur millions of years ago.
What is the mechanism called that moves or drives the tectonic plates across the surface of the earth?
The way tectonic plates move is by the heat from the core that goes up to the mantle which pushes up the rock and pushes them together to form tectonic plates. Later the tectonic plates slowly go back down until the heat of the core reaches the mantle once again.
What can tectonic plates form when they coverge?
The India plate crashing into the Asia plate caused the formation of the Himalayas. It can also cause subduction, when one plate is pushed beneath the other plate and so pushed back into the molten mantle.
How do earthquakes cause tsunanis?
Tectonic plates move as earthquakes exists. The crust shakes. As a result, the water goes down to the tectonic plates and comes back as big waves not exceeding 10-15 meters.
What would happen if two tectonic plates rubbed back and forth against each other?
an earthquake happens
Why was Operation Barbarossa called operation Barbarossa?
It was not called off, it was pushed back and defeated.
What is the dinosaur with bony plates on its back CALLED?
Stegosaurus???
If the earth's crust is growing at mid-ocean ridges why doesn't the Earth grow larger?
Because - the Earth's crust is forced back below the surface at the edges of the tectonic plates These areas are called subduction zones.
What happens in the mantle that makes the plates move?
In the mantle, there is a process called convection where hot material rises, cools, and then sinks back down. This circulating motion generates forces that cause the tectonic plates above to move. The heat from the Earth's core drives this convection process.
What in the mantle move tectonic plates?
The movement of tectonic plates is primarily driven by the convective flow of molten rock in the upper mantle. This convection occurs due to the heat generated by the radioactive decay of elements within the Earth, which causes the molten rock to rise, cool, and then sink back down, creating a circular motion that drives the movement of tectonic plates.
What happens when two tectonic plates rub back and forth?
When two tectonic plates rub back and forth, they create friction that can cause earthquakes. The pressure from the movement builds up until it is released suddenly, resulting in seismic waves that shake the Earth's surface. These earthquakes can vary in intensity depending on the amount of stress that has built up along the fault line.
What is the name of the process of recycling materials that make up the earths crust and mantle?
Subduction is the process of materials moving back into the earth at the boundary of tectonic plates.
How do tectonic plates get recycled?
This 'recycling' can happen at convergent plate boundaries. When two plates are moving towards each other, the plate of lower density will slip under the more dense one. The less dense plate will sink back into magma, and melt. Then, that magma under the crust leaks out at divergent boundaries, creating new crust.
