From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #3139 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Saturday, January 20 2018 Volume 14 : Number 3139 Today's Subjects: ----------------- These chicks are looking for a booty call ["HornyAffairs" Subject: These chicks are looking for a booty call These chicks are looking for a booty call http://getnews.bid/pdW5DD_8J57Y3h43ovX20idoOk31HhTGN369i_TkdCzAgD8 http://getnews.bid/caAIWhlWpPEA3RN2RxcVB9dypqJaTE9bOqsrzkaGrnfDlest onic plates are able to move because the Earth's lithosphere has greater mechanical strength than the underlying asthenosphere/ Lateral density variations in the mantle result in convection; that is, the slow creeping motion of Earth's solid mantle/ Plate movement is thought to be driven by a combinatiThe key principle of plate tectonics is that the lithosphere exists as separate and distinct tectonic plates, which ride on the fluid-like (visco-elastic solid) asthenosphere/ Plate motions range up to a typical 10b40 mm/year (Mid-Atlantic Ridge; about as fast as fingernails grow), to about 160 mm/year (Nazca Plate; about as fast as hair grows)/ The driving mechanism behind this movement is described below/ectonic lithosphere plates consist of lithospheric mantle overlain by one or two types of crustal material: oceanic crust (in older texts called sima from silicon and magnesium) and continental crust (sial from silicon and aluminium)/ Average oceanic lithosphere is typically 100 km (62 mi) thick; its thickness is a function of its age: as time passes, it conductively cools and subjacent cooling mantle is added to its base/ Because it is formed at mid-ocean ridges and spreads outwards, its thickness is therefore a function of its distance from the mid-ocean ridge where it was formed/ For a typical distance that oceanic lithosphere must travel before being subducted, the thickness varies from about 6 km (4 mi) thick at mid-ocean ridges to greater than 100 km (62 mi) at subduction zones; for shorter or longer distances, the subduction zone (and therefore also the mean) thickness becomes smaller or larger, respectively/ Continental lithosphere is typically about 200 km thick, though this varies considerably between basins, mountain ranges, and stable cratonic interiors of continents/The location where two plates meet is ca ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #3139 **********************************************