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No. There is no such thing as a passive plate edge. They are near a passive continental margin.
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Do the Andes and Appalachian Mountains lie on the same type of plate edge?
No, the Andes are near a subduction zone type plate edge but the Appalachian Mountains are not near any plate edge of any kind.
How does the plate tectonics effect the himalaya mountains?
the indo-australian plate is pushing into the plate above it forcing the himalaya's to get bigger because they are on the edge of the plate.
Why do earthquakes frequently occur in Nepal?
It is in a seismically active area, being near the edge of the tectonic plate that India is on and which is pushing into the rest of Asia.
What are the Sierra Nevada Mountains made out of?
Half of it lies on the North American Plate and half of it is on the Pacific Plate.
Is New York on a transform plate edge?
No, New York is on one of the most stable parts of the continent, far from any plate edge.
Do the Andes and Appalachian Mountains lie on the same type of plate edge?
No, the Andes are near a subduction zone type plate edge but the Appalachian Mountains are not near any plate edge of any kind.
A is a large area of foothills at the edge of the Appalachian Mountains?
basin
What was the western edge of the 13 colonies?
It is the Appalachian mountains.
How does the plate tectonics effect the himalaya mountains?
the indo-australian plate is pushing into the plate above it forcing the himalaya's to get bigger because they are on the edge of the plate.
Is it true that tall mountains only occur close to the edge of a tectonic plate?
yes it do
The Andes mountains running along the western edge of south America were formed by collisions between the south American plate and the?
The Andes Mountains running along the western edge of South America were formed by collisions between the South American plate and the
What are the names of major mountains and mountain ranges in Virginia?
Appalachin Mountains. ? I live in West Virginia and we have the Appalachins and they go from Maine to Florida, through both WV and Georgia.
What would be the best explanation for the existence of the andes mountains along the west coast of south america?
The Andes Mountains formed because two tectonic plates (a tectonic plate is a piece of the Earth's crust), the Nazca Plate and the Antarctic Plate, pushed into the western edge of South America. This compressed the western edge of the South American plate, and folded it, creating the Andes Mountains. A few of the mountains were formed by volcanic activity. which is also the result of the collision between this plates.
What plate boundary is the mariana islands on?
In this region, where the western subducting edge of the Pacific plate plunges beneath the Philippine plate, is found the most volcanically active convergent plate boundary on Earth.
What is it called when one plate is pushed another plate as they collide?
subduction boundary!!!
How were the Appalachian Mountains formed?
The Appalachian Mountains were formed, or more specifically started forming, some 3-400 million years ago during the Ordovician Period by a process of folding and thrust faulting when an oceanic plate collided with the boundary that is the Appalachian area. Though it had always existed at a plate boundary, until this tectonic shift the Appalachian area had been a calm one - called a "passive margin."To better understand thrust faulting, consider this: imagine a short stack of paper laying flat on a table. If you were to hold one side of the stack firmly to the table, and then push against the opposite edge with your free hand, the pages would crumple back and upwards, or "fold" into a series of peaks and valleys. In this scenario, some of the pages from the bottom now may overlap or jut above pages from the top in an odd, almost unnatural way.In this analogy, your steady hand and the stack of paper are that active plate boundary of what would later be called the North American Plate, and your free hand is the oceanic plate that collided with it. The folding, faulted paper is - you guessed it - the Appalachian Mountains.At the time of this collision, which took tens of millions of years longer to happen than it did to explain, the supercontinent of Pangea was also formed. At their newest, it is believed the Appalachians were at least as tall as the Rockies, if not larger. Over the last 300 million years, however, the once rugged peaks of relatively "soft" stone (limestone in particular) were eroded to form the ridges and valleys so characteristic of the mountains we know today.The Appalachian Mountains are nearly 500 million years old. They were formed by a shift in the tectonic plates in that area, creating a new subduction zone.
What causes a convergent boundary?
When Pangaea began to break up, the North American plate moved west. The continent's western edge became an active convergent plate boundary.
