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“Divergent Plate Boundaries”
By: Pipo Clemente
3n4geographers.wordpress.com
Continental Rifting
(geosci.usyd.edu.au)
•Happens when Magma rises up pushing the Lithosphere and Crust
•“Continental Rift” is the Belt where the Lithoshpere is Rifting
•Continents separate
•Forming an ocean
ck12.org
Rift Valleys
(nationalgeographic.org)
•Formed when tectonic plates move apart
•Most are found in the Ocean
•It is happening now on Mexico
Divergent Plate Boundaries in the
Ocean(Ck12.org)
•Basalt lava erupts into a Rift Valley
•Forming new sea floor
•Sea floor on both sides have different plates
ck12.org
References
•http://www.geosci.usyd.edu.au/users/prey/Teaching/Geol3101/Rifting0
2/rift.html
•http://nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/rift-valley/
•http://www.ck12.org/earth-science/Divergent-PlateBoundaries/lesson/Divergent-Plate-Boundaries-HS-ES/
•http://www.ck12.org/earth-science/Divergent-Plate-Boundaries-in-theOceans/lesson/Divergent-Plate-Boundaries-in-the-Oceans-HS-ES/
Images
•https://3n4geographers.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/mid-ocean.png
•http://staff.washington.edu/rel2/geog100UW/MEDIA/Cartography/PNW/Ju
an_de_Fuca_lava_pillows.jpg\
•http://www.ck12.org/earth-science/Divergent-PlateBoundaries/lesson/Divergent-Plate-Boundaries-HS-ES/
•http://www.travelycia.com/wpcontent/uploads/2013/11/tectonic_plate_ga
p_between_europe_and_america_2.jpg