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Ehh..I need help with that question and this question: Is it possible to find dome mountains in far away places from plate boundaries? Why? why not? Best answer gets the ten points

2006-09-27 14:33:16 · 5 answers · asked by Kay™ is a JB fan for life<33 2 in Social Science Economics

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1- Divergent plate boundaries
At the mid-oceanic ridges, two tectonic plates diverge from one another. New oceanic crust is being formed by hot molten rock slowly cooling down and solidifying.

2- Convergent plate boundaries
In places where one tectonic plate submerges beneath another, the crust melts and becomes magma. This surplus amount of magma generated in one location causes the formation of the volcano.

3- Hotspots
Hotspots are not located on the ridges of tectonic plates, but on top of mantle plumes, where due to the convection of Earth's mantle a column of hot material rises until it reaches the crust. Because the tectonic plates move whereas the mantle plume remains in the same place, each volcano becomes extinct after a while and a new volcano is then being formed as the plate shifts over the hotspot.

4- Petitspots
volcanoes were discovered that did not fit in any of the above-mentioned categories, since they are located far from the plate boundary, but are too small to be the result of a mantle plume. A new theory suggests that submergence of tectonic plates causes stress all over the plate, which causes the plate to crack in some places. However, other scientists believe the mantle plume theory to be incorrect, and consider this discovery a confirmation of their ideas.

2006-09-27 16:42:37 · answer #1 · answered by fsyahoo 1 · 0 0

practically all mountain forming is as a results of plate tectonic circulation. Mountains will be formed in a lot of techniques: At a effective boundary (commonly lower than the sea) plates are shifting aside allowing magma to flow although rents contained in the crust and variety volcanic mountains. the position this happens on land (Iceland, Africa) block faulting downwards would happen also, forming a trench (which of route helps the parts alongside the ditch to be considered as mountains). At unfavourable (subduction) barriers close to to the fringe of the boundary you would have continental crust collisions which forces uplift, e.g. the Himalayan mountains the position India is compelled hostile to Asia. the position oceanic sediments are plastered hostile to continental crust or are scraped off the descending plate, block faulting as a results of uplift will happen forming smaller mountains (compared with continental-continental collisions), e.g. east coast of recent Zealand. further from the subduction zone you'll locate one of those sorts of volcanoes starting from rhyolytic in the route of the zone to basaltic further from the zone. those are formed through molten magma, melted from the friction and stress of the descending plate, turning out to be to the exterior. Examples happen contained in the Taupo Volcanic Zone of North Island New Zealand, the position in the route of the east are rhyolitic volcanoes, mandatory are the andesitic volcanoes and to the west are basaltic volcanoes. New Zealand also has a remodel faultline contained in the South Island the position mountain progression has taken position to variety the Southern Alps. it truly is specially a sideways circulation yet also encompasses a element it somewhat is forcing continental crust hostile to continental crust, inflicting uplift. wish that permits.

2016-11-24 23:33:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

When volcano's are active and spewing ash, it is generally built into a dome shape

2006-09-27 14:37:36 · answer #3 · answered by CUSTODIAN JOE 3 · 0 0

hahaha you spelled volcanic wrong

2016-09-16 08:05:48 · answer #4 · answered by Via 1 · 1 0

vulcanic mountans do not have a top

2006-09-27 14:40:44 · answer #5 · answered by Eva Daniel Rn 4 · 0 0

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