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Q: What causes tectonic plate to be pulled apart?
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What kind of tectonic plate is mt.erebus?

Mt. Erubus has tectonic plates made up of parts of the lithosphere. These plates grind together or pull apart and this causes volcanoes to erupt.


What fault causes rocks to become twisted and strained?

A Transform fault where one tectonic plate slides past another tectonic plate results with rocks being pulled apart. Slippage results when the rock of one plate bends the rock of another, causing elastic rebounds and the release of energy as surface waves.


What is the name of the process that breaks continents apart?

Plate tectonics. Sub layers called tectonic plates lie underneath continents move, shift, and grind against or away from each other. The actual process of pulling apart is called diverging. The super-continent Pangaea is an example of a continent that was pulled apart. First it was pulled apart into two continents that are called Laurasia and Gondwana and then was pulled farther apart into the world that we see today.


What do tectonic plates do at a divergent plate boundary?

At a divergent boundary tectonic plates move apart.


Tectonic plates interact at what?

Tectonic plates interact at plate boundariesThey move apart at divergent boundaries


What causes an earthquake and how you know weather it is likely to happen in a particular location?

It is when two tectonic plates collide and they rubs, this causes the rubble which you get from the earthquake. You only get earthquakes if your country is in between a tectonic plate or on the tectonic plate.


What plate tectonic is chaiten volcano on?

It erupted because two tectonic plates met which causes an eruption !!!


What tectonic plate boundary causes mid-ocean ridges?

Divergent Plate Boundary.


What is a tectonic plate boundary?

The region where tectonic plates move toward, apart or horizontally past one another.


What kind of plate tectonic causes earthquakes?

Transform boundary


What is the process that pulls apart continents?

Plate tectonics. Sub layers called tectonic plates lie underneath continents move, shift, and grind against or away from each other. The actual process of pulling apart is called diverging. The super-continent Pangaea is an example of a continent that was pulled apart. First it was pulled apart into two continents that are called Laurasia and Gondwana and then was pulled farther apart into the world that we see today.


What process in Earth's interior causes subduction and sea-floormspreading?

Convective flows of molten rock beneath the Earth's crust causes tectonic plates to spread apart in one area and to sink or be subducted beneath another plate at the opposite edge of the plate.