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A conservative plate margin occurs when two plates move parallel to one another. Normally, one plate will be moving in the opposite direction to the other plate and this will very often cause a build up of friction. When one of these large build ups of friction is finally over come, the energy is released into the plate causing it to shudder.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 13y agoa conservative plate boundary can cause earthquakes by the effects of the plate boundary. This is when where the plates move slide sideways past each other, no new crust is formed and no crust is destroyed. Therefore very few volcanic eruptions occur, but earthquakes are frequent and often very strong.The plates may lock together as they move and pressure builds up.
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∙ 12y agoConservative plate boundaries are those where two plates slide past each other. These are also know as transform boundaries where crust is neither created (for example at mid-ocean-ridges) or destroyed (at subduction boundaries). They may be marked by significant seismic activity but typically not by volcanic activity.
A good example of this type of boundary is where the north American plate and the pacific plate are sliding past each other in Californian. This boundary is the (in)famous San Andreas fault.
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∙ 14y agoHi,
In answer to your question, No, Conservative plate boundaries create earthquakes due to the large amounts of friction between the two plates. Hope I have been of help.
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∙ 11y agoIt's basically when two plates rub against each other (both moving on the opposite side). This could create earthquakes because of the large amount of energy being used.
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∙ 14y agoGenerally, yes.
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∙ 11y agoyou mean convergent? yes
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What produces the forces that form volcanoes and cause earthquakes?
Tectonic plate motion.
How does the African and the eurasian plate form mount vesuvius?
The African plate was subducted by the Euroasian plate due to mayjor earthquakes in AD 62
What does conservative plate margin mean?
Naval architecture : Margin plate are those plate which form the outer edge of the double bottom and must be water tight. In welded type ship it has sometimes flanged, but it has become common practice to extend the inner bottom plating and to attach it to the top of tank side bracket.
How is divergent convergent and transform plate boundaries similar?
They are similar because they both form volcanoes and earthquakes.
Why do the Greater Antilles experience earthquakes?
The Greater Antilles are located near a transform plate boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate. These plates are silding past one another. In the area where these plates meet, stress builds up, which is released in the form of earthquakes.
Which type of plate margins commonly form valcanoes?
tectonic plates
What does a transformational plate boundary form?
A transformational plate boundary forms earthquakes.
What is the connection between mountains and plate boundaries?
mountains are usually formed on plate boundaries because earthquakes happen at plate boundaries. earthquakes can form mountains.
What does mountains and earthquakes have alike?
they both form or happen from plate tectionic
Do earthquakes cause plate boundary's to form volcanoes?
yes of course
What does transform plates form?
A transformational plate boundary forms earthquakes.
What produces the forces that form volcanoes and cause earthquakes?
Tectonic plate motion.
Which plates slipped past each other to form the earthquakes in japan?
The Asian plate and the Pacific plate.
How is similar divergent plate boundary and transform plate boundary?
They are similar because they both form volcanoes and earthquakes.
What does transform plates boundary form?
A transformational plate boundary forms earthquakes.
How does the African and the eurasian plate form mount vesuvius?
The African plate was subducted by the Euroasian plate due to mayjor earthquakes in AD 62
What are three major movements on the earth's crustal plates and what occurs as a result of these movements?
There are three major plate movements, whether these occur on the continents or under the sea, convergent, where two plates collide together and one sinks under the other, although sometimes with continental plates if two continental plates collide then they are both very dense so they both press up against each other and form mountains, there are conservative plate margins, where the plates slip past each other, catching against each other causing earthquakes, and finally there are divergent plate margins where the plates are moving away from each other, these cause upsurges of magma in between and new land/sea bed is formed, these types of plate margins usually only occur under the sea, this is how Iceland was formed, but not the Hawaiian islands
