Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Plate margins
- Fold mountains
- Earthquakes created by fold mountains
- Two continental rocks push together
- Create an enormous pressure
- In this pressure line earthquakes are created
- Tsunami created.
- Conservative
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- The two plates slide past eachother
- Sometimes the plates stick then suddenly move
- This causes an earthquake
- Very slow process
- Destructive plates
- On these boundaries there are often big earthquakes
- Sometimes they will create a big tsunami
- Eg./ the Indian Ocean tsunami
- At this boundary an island arc is usually found, on a mountain range
- Constructive margins
- When two plates move apart a new crust is developed
- Mostly in oceans
- They can be found on land