How Earthquakes Are Caused
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When any two plates collide, some sort of activity is bound to take
place. A specific type of boundary is a convergent plate boundary. At this
type of boundary, two plates are moving towards each other. Neither plate
is subducted into the mantle.
Many things happen when plates drive into each othe ....
Middle of paper
.... sea floor is
subducted. As the plates move together, molten material from the mantle
seeps up between the converging plates. The gap is closed as the plates
move more into each other, locking the molten material in. This, by the way,
happens at all of the convergent boundaries. After much time, pressure
builds up as the molten material churns in its chamber. It gets hotter, and
as we know from the laws of physics, heat rises due to its kinetic energy.
So, as the pressure get to be too much, ....
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