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Divergent
-
Separating
- plates
-
pulled apart
- active rift zones
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Constructive
- magma rises
-
magma solidifys
- new land
-
Mid Ocean Ridge
- Iceland
-
examples
- Gulf of Aden
- Red Sea
- Eastern Rift Valley
-
50 million YFN
-
detach
- east africa
- arfican land mass
-
new ccontinent
- new ocean
-
atlantic ocean
- laurasia
- broke up
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Convergent
- Colliding
- Destructive
-
how
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Subduction
- sucked mantle
-
results in
- ocean trenches
-
continental - Oceanic
-
examples
- Rockies
- Andes
-
plates colide
- buckles land
- fold mountains
-
terranes
-
squashed
- islands
- plateaus
- increase width of contenant
-
continental-continental
-
EG
- indian sub continent
-
as continents approach
- ocean sinks
-
volcanic islands/plateaus
- terranes
-
Transform
-
Conservative/Neutral
- Two plates
- slide past
-
neither
- created
- destroyed
- passive
-
earthquakes
- plates become jammed
-
energy builds up
- released
- earthquake ensues
- San Andreas Fault California