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How do tectonic plates move at each type of tectonic plate boundary

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Tectonic plates have different limits compared to other tectonic plates, which can be:

Different Limits: This type of limit is set when the plates move to move apart. The gaps that open in the Earth's Crust during this movement are filled by magma that rises to the surface. This magma undergoes a cooling and consolidation process, becoming a rock again. An example of geological formation that originated in a divergent process was the mesoceanic chains.

Convergent boundaries: This type of boundary is defined by the movement of the plates in the approximation direction, when two tectonic plates move in the convergent direction, colliding between them frontally. Nesting cases, a denser plate that plunges under a lower level, being incorporated into the warm and fluid material of the mantle.

Conservative Limits: Also known as fault transformer movement, this type of Tectonic Plate boundary occurs when plates move in opposite directions from one relationship to another, only this time horizontally.

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