Convection and Convective Currents in the Water
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| Convective currents in the water: warm material is rising, cooling down and sinking. Convection is driving the floating plate horizontally |
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| Convective currents in the water: warm material is rising, cooling down and sinking. Convection is driving the floating plate horizontally |
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| Convective currents in the mantle: warm material is rising, cooling down and sinking. Convection is driving the tectonic plate horizontally |
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| Convection cells under the Atlantic ocean: formation of mid-Atlantic ridge |
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| Convection cells under the Pacific ocean creating subduction zones along Asian and American coasts |
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| Convection plume rising in the mantle: Pacific plate is moving above in the north-west direction forming a long chain of volcanoes |