GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -dī-diverged; diverging. Synonyms of diverge. intransitive verb. : to move or extend in different directions from a common point : draw apart.

Detailed explanation-2: -: moving or extending in different directions from a common point : diverging from each other. divergent paths. see also divergent evolution. : differing from each other or from a standard. the divergent interests of capital and labor.

Detailed explanation-3: -Divergent boundaries–where new crust is generated as the plates pull away from each other. Convergent boundaries–where crust is destroyed as one plate dives under another. Transform boundaries–where crust is neither produced nor destroyed as the plates slide horizontally past each other.

Detailed explanation-4: -Divergent boundaries are places where two or more plates move away from each other. These boundaries can be found on continental or oceanic lithosphere . Tensional stress operates between the tectonic plates at a divergent boundary, which causes the lithosphere at these locations to stretch and pull apart.

Detailed explanation-5: -A divergent boundary occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other.