Plate Boundary Types and their Distribution
- Created by: Rcahle Brown
- Created on: 24-04-18 11:44
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- Plate Boundary Types and their Distribution
- Divergent
- Constructive
- Plates move apart
- Mid ocean ridges are formed
- Plates move apart
- Constructive
- Rift Volcanoes
- Divergent
- Generally les explosive and more effusive
- Basaltic magma- low viscosity
- Subduction Zone
- When a dense oceanic plate collides with a less-dense continental plate
- The oceanic plate is thrust underneath forming a subduction zone
- Destructive
- When a dense oceanic plate collides with a less-dense continental plate
- Conservative
- Plates move apart from each other at different rates
- Lithosphere is neither created or destroyed
- Sites of hallow earthquakes sometimes with a high magnitude
- Lithosphere is neither created or destroyed
- Plates move apart from each other at different rates
- Hotspot Volcanoes
- Found in the middle of tectonic plates
- Fed by underlying mantle plumes
- Plumes are usually hot compared to the surrounding magma
- Divergent
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