At divergent boundaries in the oceans, magma from deep in the Earth's mantle rises toward the surface and pushes apart two or more plates. Mountains and volcanoes rise along the seam.

Normal faults are typically found at divergent plate boundaries, such as mid-ocean ridges or continental rift zones. Credit: 13News Now Normal faults occur when the crust is stretched and pulled ...

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The theory of plate tectonics describes the movement of plates across Earth's surface. A dozen major plates ... Another 15 percent of volcanoes occur at divergent boundaries ...

We often affiliate plate tectonics with earthquakes, as we are all taught in school that the shifting of plates leads to big shakes. But plate tectonics serve a far more important job to the planet ...

Divergent plate boundaries — A place where two tectonic plates of the Earth are moving away from each other, allowing magma to bubble up into the space left between the departing plates.

Why plate tectonics is important. ... This pulls on the rest of the Earth's surface, eventually forming a divergent boundary — in red — where plates move away from each other.

They found that a divergent plate boundary, where two plates move apart, was forcefully and rapidly turned into a convergent boundary where one plate eventually began subducting.

The Atlantic Ocean is currently getting wider at the mid-Atlantic Ridge, a divergent plate boundary that pushes the Old and New Worlds apart at a rate of around 2.5cm per year.

At divergent boundaries, plates move away from each other and form mid-ocean ridges or major rift zones, and at strike-slip boundaries plates slide past each other.