EA1110 2023 Week 4

The name for faults perpendicular to mid-ocean rifts is...

The Himalayas are formed through ... of the Indian and Asian plates

Transform faults occur only in the oceans

Magnetic minerals in the Earth's crust record continental drift

The subduction of oceanic crust causes... in the overlying mantle

What is evidence for continental drift?

Hot spots and large igneous provinces are not related to plate tectonics

Ocean crust is denser than continental crust and will therefore be subducted

What confirmed Wegener's theory of plate tectonics and continental drift?

What determines the explosivity of a volcano?

Mid-ocean ridges are a result of convergence