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The Andes are a result of the convergent boundary between the Nazca and South American Plate.
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What are the three different types of boundary and explain it?
Oceanic - oceanic divergent boundary and Continental - oceanic divergent boundary.
Andes Mountains are on what kind of boundary?
convergent boundary.
What type of plate boundary occurs west of the Andes?
Divergent
What is the boundary of the Andes?
The type of boundary that the Andes mountains are, in South America, is a convergent plate boundary. This was formed from the collision of the South American plate boundary and the Nazca plate.
What are all the plate boundaries?
A simple answer is: Colliding and subductive as they consume the Earth as a portion of the plate is moved beneath another plate and remelted into magma. A common example is the western side of South America where the denser oceanic Pacific Plate moves under the less dense continental South American Plate. The Pacific melts into magma and the South American rises to form the Andes Mts. with a great deal of volcanic activity.
How was the Andes mountain range formed?
The Andes Mountains were formed through subduction of the oceanic plate underneath the South American plate.
What type of plate boundary is the Andes mountains?
The type of boundary that the Andes mountains are, in South America, is a convergent plate boundary. This was formed from the collision of the South American plate boundary and the Nazca plate.
What mountains were formed by a divergent boundary?
The Himalayas are formed at a continental-continental convergent boundary.The Andes are formed at an oceanic-continental boundary.
Where is each type of plate boundary present?
-Transform boundaries occur where plates slide or, perhaps more accurately, grind past each other along transform faults. The relative motion of the two plates is either sinistral (left side toward the observer) or dextral (right side toward the observer). The San Andreas Fault in California is one example. -Divergent boundaries occur where two plates slide apart from each other. Mid-ocean ridges (e.g., Mid-Atlantic Ridge) and active zones of rifting (such as Africa's Great Rift Valley) are both examples of divergent boundaries. -Convergent boundaries (or active margins) occur where two plates slide towards each other commonly forming either a subduction zone (if one plate moves underneath the other) or a continental collision (if the two plates contain continental crust). Deep marine trenches are typically associated with subduction zones. The subducting slab contains many hydrous minerals, which release their water on heating; this water then causes the mantle to melt, producing volcanism. Examples of this are the Andes mountain range in South America and the Japanese island arc.
What kinds of plates formed the Andes mountains?
The Andes Mountain Chain is formed as a result of a convergent plate boundary, the collision of the South American Plate with the Nazca Plate.
How was the Andes Mountains and Cascade Mountains most likely formed?
A convergent boundary between an oceanic plate and a continental plate.
What is part of a transform plate boundary A The Marianas Trench B The Mid-Atlantic Ridge C The Andes Mountains D The San Andreas Fault?
The San Andreas Fault is part of a transform plate boundary.
