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What are the large and small slabs of rock that meake up pieces of the lithosphere?
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They are called lithospheric or tectonic plates, of which there are around 30 worldwide, encompassing the entire hard brittle surface layer of the Earth.
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∙ 10y agoTectonic Plates
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∙ 12y agoThey are called tectonic plates.
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∙ 12y agoThey are called Plates
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What states that the earths lithoshere is broken into huge moving slabs of rock driven by motions in the mantle?
The theory of plate tectonics states that the lithosphere is broken into moving pieces of earth driven by convection currents located inside the mantle.
What is the type of boundary where two plates move together causing one of the slabs of lithosphere to descend into the mantle beneath an overriding plate?
Subduction
What is the type of plate boundaries where two plates move together causing one of the slabs of lithosphere to descend into the mantle beneath an overriding plate?
Subduction
How are marble slabs mined without breaking?
Marble is metamorphised limestone and a soft rock, so care is needed to quarry large slabs with a minimum of breakage. The most common modern method of marble quarrying is bench mining, where a huge wall of marble is cut loose from the quarry sides using diamond cutters, saws and hot torches. Dirt is piled up beneath this wall in order to cushion the fall when it comes loose. Once it is free and falls, the slabs are cut from the rock wall using the same types of tools and hoisted from the bottom of the quarry. Broken pieces are often crushed and sold as decorative stone for drives and gardens, while larger slabs are shaped and polished into slabs for building or other uses.
Are tectonic plate under ground or above ground?
Tectonic Plates are the ground. They are large slabs of earth that float on top of the magma.
What is the name of the geological theory that states that large pieces or slabs of Earth's crust -or lithosphere- are in constant slow motion?
The movement of crustal or lithospheric plates is a part of the theory of plate tectonics.
What are the plate in plate tectonics?
The theory of plate tectonics explains large scale motion of the earth's lithosphere. Tectonic plates are rigid slabs of the earth's lithosphere (crust and upper mantle) in which float and move with the continents they carry.
What is it called when the lithosphere is broken into up huge irregular slabs rocks?
pllates
What are the slabs of the lithosphere floating on the molten mantle called?
They are called tectonic plates.
What do you call the moving irregularly shape slabs that make up the Earths lithosphere?
Tectonic plates.
What do you call the moving irregularly shaped slabs that make up the earths lithosphere?
Tectonic plates.
What states that the earths lithoshere is broken into huge moving slabs of rock driven by motions in the mantle?
The theory of plate tectonics states that the lithosphere is broken into moving pieces of earth driven by convection currents located inside the mantle.
Why should large concrete slabs be laid with expansion so that they are not touching?
because large slabs of concrete have expansion joints between them.
You state earth lithosphere is broken into huge moving slabs of rock driven by motions in the mantle?
the theory of plate tectonics
What is the type of plate boundary where two plates together causing where the slabs of lithosphere to descend into the mantle beneath an overriding plate?
Subduction
What is the type of boundary where two plates move together causing one of the slabs of lithosphere to descend into the mantle beneath an overriding plate?
Subduction
Earths lithosphere is broken into huge moving slabs of rock driven by motions in the mantle?
The motion in the mantle is known as convection currents which helps move earth's slabs, known as plates. Convection occurs in the upper mantle known as the asthenosphere.
