How do Convergent Tectonic Boundaries Work? When continental and oceanic tectonic plates collide with each other, it results in a convergent plate boundary. The oceanic plate will submerge beneath the continental plate and form a deep ocean trench. The water released from the plate going beneath th...
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When one plate begins to slip underneath another one a trench is formed. The earthquakes that result due to the plates grinding against each other often cause magma to spill out through the trench in submarine volcanoes. Various formations such as mountain ranges, islands, and trenches are cause...
I'm doing a project on plate tectonics. What was the type of plate boundary that India and Africa had while joined with Pangaea? I know this isn't part of this topic, but please, I'm terribly desperate! Byanon150948— On Feb 09, 2011 ...
Map of tectonic plates. Arrows indicate direction of movement at plate boundaries.(Image credit: Designua via Shutterstock) Subduction zones can also occur when both colliding plate sections consist of oceanic material. In these cases, older, denser oceanic lithosphere sinks below younger, more buoyan...
MALE PROFESSOR: OK, we know the Earth's surface—the crust—is made up of tectonic plates … and that these huge slabs of rocky crust are slowly sliding over or under or past each other.And we said that most of the world's volcanoes occur at the boundaries of these tectonic plates, ...
magma, rising up from the hot interior of earth. Finally, the lava flows on earth's surface, forming up volcanoes and new land, hence named a constructive plate boundary. Destructive plates: When two plates move towards each other, one comes under other and is destroyed. Hence, they are ...
terrain but are lower in elevation and less steep than mountains. There are various methods of hill formation such as the buildup of rock debris, deposits of sand by glaciers and wind, faults, erosion and volcanoes. In addition, humans make hills by digging soil and dumping it into a pile...
boundaries of tectonic plates based on observations on land and underwater. We know now that volcanoes and earthquakes are associated with the movement of tectonic plates, and study of mountain ranges and mid-ocean ridges underwater has contributed to our understanding of the process of plate ...
The geologic processes of the earth may seem to be happening very slowly, but they still affect our everyday lives. For example, the different types of boundaries formed by tectonic plates cause different geologic events such as volcanoes and earthquakes. ...