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The worlds tectonic plates slide on the earths mantle.
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What layer of the earth are plates found?
The plates are actively spreading submarine ridges in the middle of the oceans, subduction zones in ocean trenches or mountain ranges on the continents, or margins where the plates slide past one another. Most of the world's earthquakes occur at plate boundaries.
Why did Dee Horton and Lew Hewitt invent the Sliding automatic door?
Business need
Plates and continents are made mostly of?
rock
What state was the first to require automobile license plates?
New York
How many plates is the earth's crust divided to?
8 main ones
What layer are the continents and tectonic plates sliding on?
They are sliding on the worldly 13 plates of all th continent
What layer are the continents sliding plates?
The outer crust.
What is the layer that the earths plates are sliding on?
Tectonic Plates are part of the crust, and floats on the semi-molten rock magma layer.
What layer of the Earth makes up the tectonic plates and what layer are the continents sliding on?
The continents of the Earth are sliding through the asthenosphere. This is the viscous part of the mantle on which the plates of the lithosphere sit.
What layer of the earth are plates sliding on?
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Do earthquakes cause sliding plates?
If you mean tetonic plates, then no, sliding tetonic plates cause earthquakes.
What layer are the conintents sliding on?
In broad terms, the various tectonic plates, including the continental ones, rest on the mantle. More precisely, the specific layer they move on is the plastic/deformable asthenosphere.
What do sliding plates release that causes earthquakes?
Sliding plates release tension and energy to cause earthquakes.
If two geologic plates are sliding past each other they are at what boundary?
Transform boundary is when the plates are sliding past each other: ↑ ↓; Divergent is when plates are sliding away from each other: ← →; and convergent is when plates are sliding towards each other: → ←. Those are the three main plate boundaries.
What layer of the earth are continental plates sliding on?
AnswerIt is caused by the convection currents and the heat transfer of the Earth. it is because the centre of the earth is filled with magma this creates energy and pushes the plates up, this then heats the sea and the plates float
What layer of the earth makes up these plates and what layer are these continents sliding on?
The plates on the top of the upper mantle are referred to as the lithosphere, which slides on the asthenosphere.well the mantle causes the continents to move on the ocean floor and sand it makes it slideyea know the crustti is i dont ge ehttt
What layer of the earths make up these plates and what layer are are the continents sliding on?
The plates on the top of the upper mantle are referred to as the lithosphere, which slides on the asthenosphere.well the mantle causes the continents to move on the ocean floor and sand it makes it slideyea know the crustti is i dont ge ehttt
