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Which way is the Nazca plate moving?
The Nazca plate is moving southeast towards the South American plate, which is less dense, therefore causing the Nazca plate to be driven under the South American plate at about 77mm per year. The collision of these plates is responsible for lifting the massive Andes Mountains and causing the volcanoes which are strewn throughout them.
Are the plates moving kilometers a year or centimeters a year?
They move at centimeters per year.
In California the pacific plate slides past the North American plate. If the pacific plate is moving at a speed of 5 centimeters per year how long will it take for the plate to travel 100 meters?
There are 100 centimeters in a meter. Thus 100 meters is 10000 centimeters 10000 divided by 5 centimeters per year = Two Thousand Years
What plate boundary was the Chilean earthquake on?
The earthquake occurred at a convergent boundary between the Nazca and South American plates which are converging at a rate of approximately 80mm / year. The dense oceanic crust of the Nazca plate is being forced under or subducted beneath the less dense continental crust of the South American Plate.
How much does the earth's crust move per year a few mm or a few meters?
A few mm (millimeters), up to a few cm (centimeters). It takes decades, or even centuries, for a tectonic plate to move a meter.In English measurements, the largest plate movements average not much more than one or two inches a year.
About how many centimeters does the Nazca Plate move in one year if it moves 1.0mm every four days?
then it moves 91.25mm each yearthen it says about how many centimeters ......it rounds to 91.3 then move the point to 9.13 centimeters a yearhow i got it:365 divided by 4 equals 91.25 mm
How Does a plate move on the earths surface?
A few centimeters a year.
Which way is the Nazca plate moving?
The Nazca plate is moving southeast towards the South American plate, which is less dense, therefore causing the Nazca plate to be driven under the South American plate at about 77mm per year. The collision of these plates is responsible for lifting the massive Andes Mountains and causing the volcanoes which are strewn throughout them.
How fast does earth's lithospheric plates move?
Tectonic plates move about the same rate that finger nails or your hair grows (centimeters per year). However, it varies from plate to plate. Some move at 3 centimeters while other's move around 6.
How much do plate tectonics move per year?
relatively very slow but a continuous rate that averages about 5 centimeters per year
How have scientists figured out that the pacific plate is moving at about nine centimeters per year?
All of the tectonic plates move, but they move at different speeds depending on which plates are involved. The Pacific plate moves slightly more than four centimeters annually.
How long does it take plate tectonic to move?
Plate tectonics move about 2 centimeters every year. This is a very small amount of movement. Predicted in 2,000,000 years there will me another major difference in the formation of the continents
How many centimeters does crustal plate move away towards each other per year?
around three inchese per year about 7.5 centimeter
Are the plates moving kilometers a year or centimeters a year?
They move at centimeters per year.
What are the parts of the lithosphere?
Plate tectonics make up the Earth's crust. They are very large plates of rock. There are 14 major plates: the Antarctic Plate, the African Plate, the Arabian Plate, the Caribbean Plate, the Cocos Plate, the Eurasian Plate, the Indian Plate, the Nazca Plate, the North American Plate, the Pacific Plate, the Philippine Plate, the Scotia Plate, the Australian Plate, the Juan de Fuco Plate, and the South American Plate. They only move a few centimeters a year.
In California the pacific plate slides past the North American plate. If the pacific plate is moving at a speed of 5 centimeters per year how long will it take for the plate to travel 100 meters?
There are 100 centimeters in a meter. Thus 100 meters is 10000 centimeters 10000 divided by 5 centimeters per year = Two Thousand Years
How far do plate tectonics move in one year?
the plate move about three inches a year. :P
