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What is a tensional boundary?
A destructive plate boundary is sometimes called a convergent or tensional plate margin. This occurs when oceanic and continental plates move together. The oceanic plate is forced under the lighter continental plate. Friction causes melting of the oceanic plate and may trigger earthquakes.
What are the 3 types of plate margins describe what happens at each?
Divergent boundaries: where new crust is generated as the plates pull away from each other. Convergent boundaries: where crust is destroyed as one plate dives under another. Transform boundaries: where crust is neither produced nor destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past each other.
What is tensional movement?
Tensional stress happens at divergent plate boundaries where two plates are moving away from each other. Shear stress is experienced at transform boundaries where two plates are sliding past each other.
What is tensional forces in geography?
Tensional stress is the stress that tends to pull something apart. It is the stress component perpendicular to a given surface, such as a fault plane, that results from forces applied perpendicular to the surface or from remote forces transmitted through the surrounding rock.
What kind of plate boundary creates a zone of tension?
Divergent Boundaries Divergent plate boundaries
Divergent Boundaries Divergent plate boundaries exist where tectonic plates are under tension— essentially being pulled apart. This tension leads to the upwelling of magma, which forces its way through the separating crust onto the surface.
What are the different types of boundaries?
These types include:
- physical boundaries.
- emotional boundaries.
- time boundaries.
- sexual boundaries.
- intellectual boundaries.
- material boundaries.
What is a tensional force?
A tension force in physics is a force developed in a rope, string, or cable when stretched under an applied force. Tension is acted along the length of the rope/cable in a direction that is opposite to the force applied on it. Tension can also at times be referred to as stress, tensity or tautness.
How tensional stress affect rocks?
Stress causes the build up of strain, which causes the deformation of rocks and the Earth’s crust. Compressional stresses cause a rock to shorten. Tensional stresses cause a rock to elongate, or pull apart.
Which of the following types of faults is created by tension?
In terms of faulting, compressive stress produces reverse faults, tensional stress produces normal faults, and shear stress produces transform faults.
What is creating a zone of tension?
A tension zone is a transitional zone between two distinctive zones, the zones may be influenced by climatic factors, and geological variation. creating a floristic tension zone. A marine tension zone may be affected by variables such as depth, climate or salinity.
What are volcanoes account for the distribution of volcanoes on the surface of the earth?
The distribution of volcanoes in the world is majorly present near both divergent and convergent plate boundaries. Volcanoes are not distributed randomly across the Earth’s surface. Most are concentrated on the equator, along island chains, or beneath the sea, forming long mountain ranges.
Where does tensional stress occur?
divergent plate boundaries
Tensional stress happens at divergent plate boundaries where two plates are moving away from each other.