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Rising mantle material at mid-ocean ridges creates the potential for plates to move away from the ridge with a force called ridge push. Ridge push moves the lithosphere in opposite directions
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subsiding rock exerts a force on spreading lithospheric plates that could help drive their movements. This force is called ridge push, though the phrase ridge push is somewhat misleading. It might be more accurate to refer to ridge push as gravitational sliding. Slab Pull At a subduction boundary, one plate is denser and heavier than the other ...
Ridge push only seems to be effective where there are no slab pull forces. Demonstrate this by asking two pupils to stand together at the front of the room, representing two plates together at an oceanic ridge.
1 sty 2011 · These sublithospheric buoyancy forces generate the plate driving forces F sp (slab pull) and F rp (ridge push). Whether the force F bs (basal shear) is a plate-driving or resisting force...
Plate Driving Forces: The forces that drive the motions of tectonic plates at the surface. Slab Pull: The force exerted by the weight of the subducted slab on the plate it is attached to. Ridge Push: The pressure exerted by the excess height of the mid-ocean ridge. Introduction
Ridge-Push Force. Let's cover a final force a subducting plate would experience, the ridge-push force. This force results from the elevation of oceanic ridges above the seafloor. This difference in height leads to pressure that 'pushes' the plate away from the ridge.
