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Plate tectonics cause earthquakes, and volcanoes. When the plates move they built up stress and when the faults release the fault cause and earth quake. There are different types of earthquakes that happen when plate collide. There are strike-slip faults, when two plates slid past each other, spreading faults, two plates move apart, collision, two plates crash into each other, and subduction, one plate sinks under the other. Volcanoes are usually made when one plate subducts under the other and the crust sinks under into the mantle. The magma melts the rock and it forces its way to the surface, where it eventually solidifies.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoCollision boundaries are two plates colliding at each other creating a subduction zone. The heavier/slower plate dives 20-60 degrees down from the surface and the lighter/faster plate is crushed and forms folded mountains along the boundary.
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∙ 13y agoCollisional boundaries are when 2 continental plates crash into each other. Forming a mountain range. For example the Himalayas, the alps etc.
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∙ 12y agoCollision margins are two continental crusts moving together. As it can't sink or destroy, the rocks between them move upwards.
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∙ 11y agoit causes earthquakes
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basically boom bam bosh
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Earthquakes and mountains
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What happens to plates at a transform plate boundary?
earthquakes occur where there are transformed boundaries.
Which plate movement relies on the weight of the subduction crust?
This happens in front of Island Arcs and in at destructive plate boundaries.
Collision boundaries and subduction boundaries are types of what boundaries?
The older denser plate sinks under a deep ocean trench into the mantle. Some rock above the subducting plate melts and forms magma. Since the magma is less dense than the surrounding rock, it rises toward the surface. Eventually, the magma breaks through the ocean floor, making a volcanoe.
What happens to the lithosphere at transform plate boundaries?
Lithosphere is neither destroyed nor created.
What type of plate collision results in the formation of a volcanic mountain range?
They are called convergent boundaries and they come together with such force that they shoot up to make it.
What is the where 2 tectonic plates meet called?
a plate boundary there are constructive plate boundaries, destructive plate boundaries, conservative plate boundaries and collision plate boundaries
What happens during a covergent plate boundary?
Plate collision.
Where do fold mountains form?
At destructive collision plate boundaries eg Alps (collision of African and Eurasian plates)
What happens on plate collision boundaries?
the two equal plates push together and then they eventually pust up, to make mountains.(they have to be the same types of plates for this to happen!!) e.g. the himalayers
What happens when plate boundaries meet?
Volcanos,,,, Mountain Building
What happens when tectonic plates push against?
It could either cause Spreading boundaries (when the plates move apart), collision boundaries (Where one plate collides with the other forcing one underground- can cause volcano's, or transform boundaries (When plates scrape along side each other- causing Earthquakes.
What is the type of tectonic plate boundary that forms from a collision between two tectonics plates?
Convergent boundaries occur at subduction zones, the point where one plate slides under another plate.
What is the type of tectonic plate boundary that forms from a collision between two tectonic plates is a?
Convergent boundaries occur at subduction zones, the point where one plate slides under another plate.
What is the type of tectonic plate boundary that forms from collision between two tectonic plates is a?
Convergent boundaries occur at subduction zones, the point where one plate slides under another plate.
Describe what happens in the three different kinds of plate collisions?
Subduction (where one plate is forced beneath another less dense plate - may occur at oceanic-oceanic and oceanic-continental boundaries), obduction (where oceanic plate is forced over a continental plate) and orogenesis where two continental plates collide and mountains are formed (e.g. the Himalayas).
What are three types of plate bounderys?
the three types of plate boundaries are : -convergent plate boundaries -divergent plate boundaries -transformed plate boundaries
What happens at the plate boundaries where spreading occurs?
the earth drifts away. This is science.
