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explain the type of tectonic plate movements responsible for the formation of relief features

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Answered by Rio03
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In the theory of plate tectonics, the earth's crust is broken into plates that move around relative to each other. As a result of this movement, three types of plate boundaries are formed: divergent, convergent, and transform boundaries.

Divergent:

Almost all the Earth's new crust forms at divergent boundaries, but most are not known because they lie deep under the oceans. These are zones where two plates move away from each other, allowing magma from the mantle to rise up and make a new crust. 

Transform-

here two plates slide by one another in opposite directions. The San Andreas Fault is the most well-known (and most deadly) translational interface. The two plates slide by one another along a large scale fault. Since these are two large pieces of rock, there is a great deal of frictional coupling that occurs.

Convergent-

convergent is the collision of two plates. A collision of a less dense continental plate with a more denser oceanic plate collides with a continental plate and the ocean plate goes under the continental plate. This takes a great deal of energy and results in the melting of the continental crust, vulcanism occurs.


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