Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Plate Tectonics

Transform fault - plates slide past one another with no creation or destruction of lithosphere.


Divergent boundary - two plates diverge, or move apart and new crust or lithosphere is formed. 


Convergent boundary  - plates converge, or come together. If a plate of oceanic lithosphere collides with thicker and less dense continental lithosphere, the denser oceanic plate will dive beneath the continent in a subduction zon. 

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