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- zones, oceanic lithosphere invariably sinks underneath the overriding lithosphere, which can be oceanic or continental. New oceanic lithosphere is constantly...16 KB (1,881 words) - 06:48, 31 July 2024
- Convergent boundary (category Lithosphere)of lithosphere, and deformation. Convergent boundaries occur between oceanic-oceanic lithosphere, oceanic-continental lithosphere, and continental-continental...20 KB (2,374 words) - 05:34, 23 May 2024
- Subduction (category Lithosphere)Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at the convergent...67 KB (8,251 words) - 10:32, 3 August 2024
- pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, together referred to as the lithosphere. The plates are around 100 km (62 mi) thick and consist of two principal...20 KB (3,088 words) - 12:28, 15 July 2024
- Craton (redirect from Stable Continental Region)Greek: κράτος kratos "strength") is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere, which consists of Earth's two topmost layers, the crust and the...23 KB (2,569 words) - 05:11, 19 May 2024
- The lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary (referred to as the LAB by geophysicists) represents a mechanical difference between layers in Earth's inner structure...13 KB (1,541 words) - 16:45, 16 January 2024
- mechanical lithosphere (isotherm of 500 - 600 °C). This way it is also age dependent, as gradually thickens moving off the oceanic ridge. For the continental lithosphere...5 KB (490 words) - 09:17, 3 December 2023
- Plate tectonics (redirect from Continental plate)formation. Tectonic plates are composed of the oceanic lithosphere and the thicker continental lithosphere, each topped by its own kind of crust. Along convergent...112 KB (13,659 words) - 22:00, 13 August 2024
- mantle (associated with the continental lithosphere) and oceanic lithospheric mantle (associated with the oceanic lithosphere). Pearson, D. G.; Nowell,...2 KB (177 words) - 21:29, 11 April 2024
- of the continental margin beneath oceanic lithosphere. Many ophiolite complexes were emplaced as thin, hot obducted sheets of oceanic lithosphere shortly...13 KB (1,637 words) - 23:17, 2 June 2024
- oceanic lithosphere. Oceanic crust is primarily composed of mafic rocks, or sima, which is rich in iron and magnesium. It is thinner than continental crust...15 KB (1,854 words) - 03:10, 23 June 2024
- A passive margin is the transition between oceanic and continental lithosphere that is not an active plate margin. A passive margin forms by sedimentation...24 KB (2,909 words) - 11:08, 18 April 2024
- subduction zones produces continental crust. Earth's upper mantle is divided into two major rheological layers: the rigid lithosphere comprising the uppermost...28 KB (3,157 words) - 17:37, 3 August 2024
- the uppermost solid part of Earth's mantle associated with the continental lithosphere. The modern understanding of the Earth's upper mantle is that there...6 KB (737 words) - 09:07, 28 June 2024
- Rift (redirect from Continental rifting)oceanic crust and lithosphere is created along a divergent boundary between two tectonic plates. Failed rifts are the result of continental rifting that failed...22 KB (2,534 words) - 16:35, 21 January 2024
- processes occurring at or near the interface between the cratonic continental lithosphere and the underlying convecting asthenospheric mantle. Many kimberlite...31 KB (3,583 words) - 15:51, 25 August 2024
- the movement of the continents as they ride on plates of the Earth's lithosphere. The speculation that continents might have "drifted" was first put forward...45 KB (4,765 words) - 08:38, 26 August 2024
- including the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the East Pacific Rise, and in the continental lithosphere by rift valleys such as the famous East African Great Rift Valley...6 KB (761 words) - 15:50, 12 May 2024
- continent, and the underlying oceanic lithosphere actually caused drag on the root of the overlying continental lithosphere. One cause for shallow subduction...10 KB (1,153 words) - 09:00, 8 October 2023
- profile of oceanic lithosphere. It is primarily made of silicate rocks with (SiO2) content ranging from 45–77 wt%. The Arabian continental margin formed in...9 KB (1,084 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2024
- deep, called by Professor H. K. H. Wagner the continental slope. If the lithosphere surface be divided into three parts, namely, the continent heights, the
- associated with Oceanic crust Continental lithosphere, which is associated with Continental crust Oceanic lithosphere is typically about 50-100 km thick