Oceanic plates are formed by divergent plate boundaries. These zones, located along mid-ocean ridges, represent areas where upwelling magma creates new oceanic crust. As lava flows from these volcanic ridges, it quickly cools, forming extrusive igneous rock
Oceanic and Continental Plate TectonicsPlate tectonics is the theory that the surface of the Earth is covered by rigid plates. These plates consist of the lithosphere, which contains the crust and the uppermost rigid layer of the mantle. The plates move relative to each other on the surface, driven by convection, or cycling in the mantle.
The plates interact with each other in three ways:
Divergen
Convergent
Transform
In addition, there are two types of plates: oceanic and continental. Oceanic plates are plates that lie primarily under the ocean. Continental plates are those containing continents.
As the plates interact with each other like when two continents collide together, they shape the topography, or relief, of the Earth's surface. They also can cause geologic events to take place, such as earthquakes and tsunamis. Earthquakes are defined as both slip along a fault or crack in the Earth, and the shaking motion felt by the release of energy caused by such a slip. Tsunamis are large sea waves that result from large earthquakes occurring near the top of the plate under the ocean.
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