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What a ridge push?
Ridge push is a gravitation force that causes a plate to move away from the crest of an ocean ridge, and into a subduction zone.
What is the difference between ridge push and slab pull?
Ridge push is a gravitation force that causes a plate to move away from the crest of an ocean ridge, and into a subduction zone. The Slab pull force is a tectonic plate force due to subduction. The difference is the force of motion.
What is a ridge push?
Ridge push is a geological concept where the force of gravity causes oceanic lithosphere to move downhill from a mid-ocean ridge, pushing tectonic plates away from the ridge. This process contributes to plate motion along with other forces like slab pull and mantle convection.
What is motion due to gravity?
ridge push
What is the plate motion due gravity?
Ridge Push
Plate motion due to gravity is what?
ridge push
What Plate motion due to gravity?
ridge push
What is an example of the slab pull ridge push mechanism?
In the slab pull ridge push mechanism, as a tectonic plate subducts beneath another, the weight of the subducting plate (slab pull) and the force exerted by the rising ridge system (ridge push) both contribute to the movement of the plates. For example, the movement of the Pacific Plate due to subduction beneath the North American Plate in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States is driven by the combined effects of slab pull and ridge push.
What it is called when a plate at a mid-ocean ridge responds to gravity by sliding down a slope?
ridge push, i think...
Who is a slab pull different from ridge push?
Slab pull is the force that occurs when a subducting tectonic plate sinks into the mantle, pulling the rest of the plate behind it. Ridge push, on the other hand, is the force that occurs when the elevated edges of a mid-ocean ridge push the plate away from the ridge. Both forces play a role in plate tectonics, with slab pull mainly driving plate motion at subduction zones and ridge push contributing to the movement of plates away from mid-ocean ridges.
What was the cause for Europe and North America to drift apart?
Ridge Push :)
What the asthenosphere look like after the oceanic plates push upwards?
Ridge
