Plate Tectonics
Plate tectonics are plate movements which will in turn cause earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, mountain ranges, and islands.
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This is a complex question and is a subject of continuing ongoing scientific research. A summary of some of the hypothesised...
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Tectonic plates collide at a convergent plate boundary. Oceanic to oceanic plate convergence: Where an oceanic plate collides...
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"Plate tectonics" is what causes an earthquake.An answer for young students: Earthquakes are shakes and jiggles in the huge...
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Plate tectonics is the science and study of the causes of, and relative motions of, Earth's lithospheric plates. The...
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Crustal shortening is the reduction of the size of the Earth's crust through tectonic activities such as those found at a...
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The polychromatic plate is a plate specialized for arceus that turns him into his ancient form. it can only be found after you...
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Volcanoes are evidence of the ceaseless tectonic activity that our planet has. The molten core of the earth drives all of the...
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The Mid-Ocean Ridge Is From The Mantle.
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It has the ability to move other tectonic plates, it is jello like although it is considered a solid and it is located right...
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The steeper the subduction angle, the closer the arc will be to the trench. This is controlled by the age of the oceanic crust...
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Lots of ways. One example is that scientists have shot semantic waves through Earths layers to find out how much velocity each...
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The element at the bottom of the kettle heats the water that's close to it. This water rises (warm water is lighter than cold),...
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Surtsey is formed on the convergent boundary between the North American and Eurasian plates. At this location this is oceanic...
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Earth's Layers(All depths are from the surface of the Earth.)1. The Crust--The outer skin of the planet is composed of igneous,...
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yes it is along with eastern Siberia, the U.S., Canada, and half of Iceland.
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3.2 on the Richter scale is relatively small quake often not even felt but just recorded by instruments. See ...
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Subduction zones exist for the same reason that any other form of tectonic activity exists, which is that the Earth's crust...
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~1 cm per year
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8 main ones
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by water running over and under the same place
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and also sea floor spreading affects that we so called volcanic eruption. thanks i hope i can help!
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In an ideal world this would be a margin that involves some element of compression, so you're looking at a compressional...
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The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth's surface.
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The same as what the WHOLE mantle is . :)))
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Magma from the earth's interior is rising and pushing the two oceanic plates apart.
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The Oceanic Crust and the Continental Crust.
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Rheology in a geological context deals with the flow / deformation of the extremely viscous fluids that compose the asthenosphere...
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To locate an earthquake, you need the data from at least three seismometer stations. The process is known as triangulation and is...
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The superheated magma rises/cools, then it moves across the bottom of the crust/top of the Mantle, then it sinks/heats up again...
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With the appropriate writing instrument or material, yes.
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Seismologists prefer to attempt to quantify the risk posed by a particular fault zone rather than state exactly when an...
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at the mid ocean ridge
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The temperature of Earth's crust can range from -70 degrees Fahrenheit to +750 degrees Fahrenheit depending on location and...
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plate tectonics.
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Silver is mined through a series of mines known as an open cut mine, a shaft mine, and a panning. Silver (Ag) is a precious metal...
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Typically mafic (iron and magnesium rich) minerals such as pyroxenes (either augite and orthopyroxene) and olivine along with...
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convection currents shut down (stop) when the imbalance in temperatures is gone. If you stop heating, you start the shut down
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Earthquakes can occur along subduction zones. These earthquakes can trigger tsunamis.
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The crust is most definately the thinnest layer of earth
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Continental Drift
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divergent, transform and convergentdivergent plate boundaries move away from each other, convergent plate boundaries move toward...
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It's not so much the actual movement, as the aftereffects of their movement. At a destructive plate margin, the dense oceanic...
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His ideas where not generally believed because he was an astronomer and meteorologist. Also scientists believed the earth was...
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a seismograph
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No hurricanes are caused by instability over warm oceans creating thunderstorms which start to spin and join together.
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Tectonic plates moving together will result in earthquakes. Differing types of plate contact makes for varied results. They can...
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Me, personally? I live near Sacramento, California, USA, and the nearest plate boundary is about 100 miles to the west, the...
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a tectonic hazard is a disaster caused by the moving of tectonic plates.....anda tectonic activity is the moving of tectonic...
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EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP'S ARTICLE 'TRIANGLE OF LIFE' TIPS FOR EARTHQUAKE SAFETY 1) Almost everyone who simply 'ducks and covers'...
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A subduction zone is an area of tectonic plate collision where the more dense plate subducts, or follows a path underneath, the...
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only the crust
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there r mny application of recrystallisation..........if u knw write d answer on dis page.....jst chillax.... It is just to...
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Depends on the type of tectonic plate. If it is two continental plates, usually a mountain range will be formed and the plates...
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Alfred Wegener's fully developed theory of continental drift attempted to point out evidences that the continents were once...
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The ash and cinders erupted can bury entire villages and kill many people. The lava from composite volcanoes generally does not...
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using the center circle finder tool that they sell at the home depot. Their really cheap and you could probably get one for...
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Large earthquakes often occur far from the most densely populated regions of the Earth. But they can still kill many people. When...
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Tectonic plates are segments of the Earth's lithosphere, the hard rocky outer shell composed of the crust and the uppermost...
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The oceanic lithosphere is thickest beneath the continents.
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It is beneath the sea an is called a ocean crust. This is the thinnest point because the ocean water is so dense (heavy) it...
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The tectonic plates move at about the same speed your finger nails grow. The gap the plates create when they move apart is...
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The soviet union taking over Georgia and setting boundaries
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Plate Tectonics.
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The Pacific Plate has no continental crust.
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Continental Drift is the name of a theory, developed by German meteorologist and geologist Alfred Wegener (1880-1930), asserting...
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It is a Divergent plate Boundary.
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Earth's Physical Layers - All depths are from the surface of the Earth.1) The Crust--The outer skin of the planet is composed of...
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There is wide agreement among geologists that the Himalayas began forming roughly 50-70 million years ago when the...
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Obduction occurs at convergent plate boundaries in which one plate remains at a constant level and the other plate is forced up...
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convection currents
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Vibrations A seismoscope is an instrument used to measure vibrations of the earth's crust. Generally, scientists use these...
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No. It's at its thickest
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It is subducted down into the mantle. At roughly 600 miles depth it merges into and is no longer distinguishable seismically from...
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Three different types of waves travel away from the focus of a seismic event. These waves travel at different speeds. In addition...
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well when you put/drop some water on it.
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repeating layers of tephra and lava :D
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The three main types of stress in a rock are shearing, tension, and compression.
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The reason for this is that the ocean floor is ever changing and is never in the same possition due to current.
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Subduction happens when two tectonic plates collide. The earth's crust is made up of separate plates that 'float' on the mantle...
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Wegener proposed the continental drift theory, and provided scientific evidences for such, but couldn't explain the mechanism or...
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This is a more complicated question than it may first appear as oceanic crustal plates are composed of Mafic rocks (rich in iron...
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Fluid transport happens in the xylem tissue of the plant. There are believed to be two mechanisms which transport water and...
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the spreading apart of the 2 boundaries.
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Tectonic plates are segments of the Earth's lithosphere, the hard rocky outer shell composed of the crust and the uppermost...
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The revels of the Earths magnet poles that has occurred at Irregular intervals averaging approximately one millions years.
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Previous earthquake occurrences, nearness to active volcanoes, and location in the area where crustal [or lithospheric or...
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A divergent boundary is an area where 2 plates are moving apart. This is caused by tensional forces. The result is upwelling...
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its under the crust, its hot, its orange, its above the core, its in the earth
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