Converging and diverging plates are the cause of natural disasters such as volcanoes. Other types of shifting and movement of the tectonic plates, such as moving sideways and slipping past each other, can cause earthquakes and tsunamis. How each of these happens is explained in detail in the...
Landforms are generally created by the movement of tectonic plates and through erosion. For instance, the collision between two tectonic plates can cause the Earth’s crust to fold and create huge mountains. It can also lead to the formations of volcanoes, which can both create and destroy new...
The crust consists of tectonic plates. Tectonic plates are like giant jig-saw pieces. Magma seeps through where the tectonic plates meet. The magma comes close to the surface of the Earth. When the magma bursts through onto the surface, we have a volcanic eruption. The lava that comes out ...
The Earth's crust can be pictured like an egg shell, fractured into many sections, which we call tectonic plates. There are three types of plate boundaries: convergent, divergent and transform. Convergent boundaries are where two plates are moving towards each other, and this is where subduction...
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Ridge Axis:The central part of a mid-ocean ridge is called the ridge axis, where the plates are actively pulling apart, and magma is being extruded to form new crust. The ridge axis often features a central rift valley, a deep depression created by the divergence of tectonic plates. ...
Rift valley in southwest Iceland is indeed part of the boundary between the Eurasian and North American continental tectonic plates. Geological Features of Rifting Grabens:Keystone-shaped blocks of down-dropped crust within rift valleys. Horsts:The uplifted shoulders of grabens. ...
Fault – a separation or crack in the layers of the Earth’s crust caused by stress and movement of Earth’s tectonic plates. The San Andreas Fault is one fault line which runs along the length of western and central California. Fjord – a narrow inlet of the sea between high cliffs or...
Slab pull is one of the mechanisms that help explain plate tectonic motion. So, what is slab pull? A slab pull is the strongest mechanism that contributes to plate tectonic motion and is a force generated by gravity acting on dense oceanic plates subducting into the mantle....
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