Student: Yeah. Um…basically, a subduction zone is where two tectonic plates collide.So if an ocean floor tectonic plate meets the edge of a continent and they push against each other, the heavier one sinks down and goes under the other one.So the…um…the oceanic plate is made of dense...
Finally, a last striking example of rupture collision was detected in the ring fault around a caldera (Wang et al., 2024): in this case, a unique rupture nucleates at one point of the fault, propagates in both directions around the ring fault and finally the two rupture fronts collide. ...
Based on Plate Tectonics, when two oceanic plates collide, the plate subducts because it a) Older; contains more iron and is therefore, more dense b)Younger; is thinner and therefore easier to subduct c) Older; colder and the...
The conversation currents in the mantle cause some continents to collide with each other while it forces others apart, altering the shape of the face of the Earth over millions of years. Roughly every 600 million years the continents are forced together into a supercontinent, with the next one...
Two equal masses travelling at velocities of 4 m/s and -2 m/s collide by direct impact and stick together. What is the velocity of the combined masses following the collision? What is retrograde motion? Can you explain eudoxus model or t...