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Crust
Oceanic crust The thin crust under
the oceans
continental crust denser in nature
Mantle
Under the crust is the rocky mantle
Lithosphere
Asthenosphere
Lithosphere
cool and behave as a
more or less rigid shell.
Asthenosphere
Its hot and finds a weak place in the
lithosphere to rise buoyantly as a
plume, or hotspot Occasionally.
b) Process of convection in
heating Water.
a) Convection currents in the mantle
Trenches
Volcanic arcs
Transform Boundaries
The zone between two plates sliding horizontally past one another is
called a transform-fault boundary, or simply a transform boundary.
A famous example of such a collision is the San Andreaes fault in California.
Evidences
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2.Continental
drift
Map showing distribution of fossils on the
southern continents. These distributions caused
Wegener to join the continents as shown in the
map.
4.
The concentration is striking, and indeed this plot serves to define the plate
boundaries extremely well. here are ridges, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge where
plates are separating that are produced by lava welling up from between the plates
as they pull apart. Likewise, there are mountain ranges being formed where plates
are pushing against each other (e.g., the Himalayas, which are still growing).
Plate tectonic motion, which may be only centimeters per century, is now being
studied by careful laser ranging techniques that are capable of detecting such
small motions.