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What layer of Earth and interior where convection currents occur?
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Heat from the earth's interior causes convection currents in which layer of earth?
Convection currents in the magma drive plate tectonics.Heat generated from the radioactive decay of elements deep in the interior of the Earth creates magma (molten rock) in the aesthenosphere.
What layer of Earth can you find convection currents?
Convection currents occur in the mantle of the earth. They can affect the crust and the life above it, though.
What is the mechanical layer of earth that has the most active convection's currents?
The Earth's core.
What is the mechanical layer of Earth that has the most active convection currents?
The Earth's core.
What is the mechanical layer of earths that has the most active convection currents?
The Earth's core.
The layer in which convection currents move?
Convection currents move in the Mantle.
Which layer of the earth contains convection currents that move the tectonic plates?
The upper mantle contains convection currents that move the tectonic plates.
Where does heat transfer by convection currents take place in the earths interior?
Most convection currents exist in the mantle, the layer below the Earth's crust. As the semi-molten rock heats up, it rises closer to the surface, and it sinks as it cools. This is how plate tectonics works, as the crust's plates move on these currents.
Which layer of earth are the convection currents that directly result in tectonic plate motion found?
mantle
What are convection currents and in which layer do they occur?
no
What is the layer that has convection currents that move the plates?
This layer is the mantle.
What are convection currents in a mantle?
The asthenosphere is the layer of the Earth directly below the brittle lithosphere, made of solid rock with a small percentage of melt, which is under tremendous pressure and temperature conditions. It performs and moves in a ductile fashion (highly viscous) even though it is considered rock, and does not break while under stress, but can move due to convection currents of heat arising from Earth's interior.
