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PLATE TECTONICS AND BOUNDARIES
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How do we know what the Earth is made of?•Geophysical surveys: seismic, gravity,
magnetics, electrical, Earth size and shape▫Acquisition: land, air, sea and satellite
▫Geological surveys: fieldwork, boreholes, mines
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Plate Tectonics•The Earth’s crust is divided into 12
major plates which are moved in various directions.
•This plate motion causes them to collide, pull apart, or scrape against each other.
•Each type of interaction causes a characteristic set of Earth structures or “tectonic” features.
•To determine which type of boundary is present, scientists use evidence of earthquakes and volcanoes
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World Plates
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• Divergent
• Convergent
• Transform
Three types of plate boundary
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• Spreading ridges▫ As plates move apart new material is erupted to
fill the gap
Divergent Boundaries
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Mid-Atlantic Ridge = Divergent Boundary
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•Iceland has a divergent plate boundary running through its middle
Iceland: An example of continental rifting
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•Plates move toward each other•There are three types of convergent
plate boundaries▫Continent-continent collision▫Continent-oceanic crust collision▫Ocean-ocean collision
Convergent Boundaries
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•Forms mountains, e.g. European Alps, Himalayas
Continent-Continent Collision
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Collision Zones
Two continents hit head-on, crinkling up the land into a high mountain chain.
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Himalayas
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Continental-Oceanic (Subduction)
• Oceanic lithosphere subducts underneath the continental lithosphere
• Oceanic lithosphere heats up and melts, then rises, causing volcanism
• E.g. The Andes
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• When two oceanic plates collide, one runs over the other which causes it to sink into the mantle forming a subduction zone.
• The subducting plate is bent downward to form a very deep depression in the ocean floor called a trench.
• The worlds deepest parts of the ocean are found along trenches. ▫ E.g. The Mariana Trench is 11 km deep!
Ocean-Ocean Plate Collision
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•Where plates slide past each other
Transform Boundaries
Above: View of the San Andreas transform fault