plate movements part 2
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Plate Movements
Part 2
Earth’s Layers & Mantle Convection
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How the Plates Move
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Mantle Convection
• Rigid lithospheric plates lie on top of
the semi-fluid asthenosphere
• Heat from the
Earth’s core
powers mantle
convection
currents
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Mantle Convection Currents
a. The core heats the magma in the asthenosphere
b. Hot magma = less dense and risestoward the surface
c. Near the surface, magma cools = more dense
d. Dense magmasinks back towardthe core and repeatsthe cycle
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Mantle Convection
• The lithospheric plates “surf” on top of
the asthenosphere as the magma cycles
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Ridge Push
• 2 convection currents meet and…
1. Both cells push magma up at the same spot
2. Some magma breaks through the crust and
forms a ridge
3. The ridge of new crust pushes the older
crust/ lithospheric plates away from the
area = RIDGE PUSH!
• Separating plates = DIVERGENT
BOUNDARY
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How the Plates Move:
Ridge Push
Oldest Youngest Oldest
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How Plates Move
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Slab Pull/Gravity Pull
• 2 convection currents meet and…
1. Both cells are pulling magma down
2. The plates floating on top are pulled
together
a. Mountains:
plates with
the same
density
push crust
upward
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Slab Pull/Gravity Pull
b. Subduction: with plates of different
densities, the denser plate slides
under the less dense plate
Bottom plate is pulled down into the
mantle = SLAB/GRAVITY PULL
This plate melts, becomes new
magma, and cycles through the
convection current
• Colliding plates =
CONVERGENT
BOUNDARY
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Partner Discussion: Is the Earth
getting smaller or larger?
• NEITHER!!! It stays the same size!
• The new rock that forms at the ridge/rift
is really recycled rock from a plate that
was pulled into the mantle