Geological settings whereby there is melting of rock as well as formation of sediments can be attributed to Plate tectonics .
Plate tectonics can be regarded as theory which explained the Earth's outer shell and how its been divided into solid rocks as well as slabs and its often referred to as Plate.
- Plate tectonics explained that there is a large-scale motion plates which Earth's lithosphere is made up.
- Tectonic processes started about 3.3 and 3.5 billion years ago.
- Through the generation of Tectonic plate, there are melting of rocks as well as generation of sediments
- The types of boundaries that exist between those tectonic plates can be categorized into 4, base on the the movement of the plates, and these are;
- divergent boundaries
- convergent boundaries
- transform fault boundaries
- plate boundary zones
Therefore, plate tectonic gives explanation about Earth's outer shell.
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