Tectonic Plates
What
are tectonic plates?
Tectonic plate are irregular rocks with different shapes but usually large in size made up of both continental and oceanic lithosphere.
Different types of tectonic plate boundaries
There are three different types of tectonic plate boundaries. The first is divergent, the second is convergent and the last is transform plate boundaries. The three boundaries are surrounded with hot spewing lava from long fissures, were the rocks start to break because of frequent earth quakes, this forms a narrow opening for the lava to flow from. The geyser contains extremely hot boiled water which turns into steam and sends both steam and water spitting into the air.
Divergent boundary
The first of the three boundaries is the divergent boundary. A divergent boundary is formed only with the separation of two tectonic plates. The striking of earthquakes along the rift. Beneath the rifts, magma a semi fluid substance located beneath or below the earth’s crust, when cooled down this cooling can create a solid rock from the mantle. The mantel is known to be the region of the earth's interior between the crust and the core. When solidified the rock that is created from both the magma and mantel is basalt, a dark, dense rock that is known to underline the ocean floor these basalt create oceanic crust at divergent boundaries.
Convergent plate boundary
The second of the three is convergent plater boundary. A convergent plate boundary does the total opposite of the divergent, the convergent boundary is formed only when two tectonic plates come together. When two plates come together it is then only by collision, this collision buckles the edge of one or both plates tightly together creating a rugged mountain like range or bends he other plate into a deep seafloor trench. There is a parallel chain of volcanoes formed, all parallel to the mountains range and the trench. It is know that there are powerful earthquake shakes around the convergent plate boundary.
Transform boundaries
Transform boundaries are places were plates slide past one another they do not dived like divergent boundaries or collide like convergent boundary. Because in the press of sliding past one anther there is no collision or separation like the other boundary tram from boundaries is known in some places by liner valleys where the proves of rock has been ground up by the sliding of the plates.
Transform boundaries are also known in some places by the frustration like steam beds with two split half moving in ops site direction from one another.
Transform boundaries with their sliding motion are known to create and cause a lot of earthquakes.