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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 boundaries was formed about 25 million years ago when the Pacific plate met the North American plate?
Transform boundary
How many years would the plate under the Pacific ocean take to move 36 inches?
It will take 20 years.
What kind of Plate boundary is in japan?
Japan is at the meeting place of four tectonic plates: The Pacific Plate, The Eurasian Plates, The Philippine Plate, and the Okhotsk Plate (sometimes considered part of the North American Plate).
What plate does Hawaii sit on?
Actually, the Hawaiian Islands were not formed by plates colliding together. They are in fact in the middle of the Pacific plate. They were formed by a hot spot. A hot spot is a spot in the inside of a plate and magma rises up to the surface and becomes a volcano. The reason why there are multiple islands is because the Pacific Plate is moving. Once an island moves completely away from the hot spot it becomes an extinct volcano.
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 speed is the pacific plate moving?
centi meters every 1000,000 years
How old is the Pacific plate?
The pacific Plate is the oldest plate on the planet and is over 600 billions years old
What boundaries was formed about 25 million years ago when the Pacific plate met the North American plate?
Transform boundary
What boundary was formed about 25 million years ago when the Pacific plate met the North American plate?
y u ask me
How many years would the plate under the Pacific ocean take to move 36 inches?
It will take 20 years.
How has the direction of the Pacific plate movement changed over last 60 million years?
It has shifted north
What way does the South American plate moving?
West over the heavier pacific plate, in about several hundred million years I'll be able to drive to china 177
What has the author F Walpole written?
F. Walpole has written: 'The Ansayrii, and the Assassins' -- subject(s): Assassins (Ismailites), Description and travel, Nosairians 'Four years in the Pacific' -- subject(s): Description and travel, Collingwood (Ship) 'Four years in the Pacific' -- subject(s): Description and travel, Collingwood (Ship)
Describe the change in the rate of movement of the pacific plate during the last 4.7 million years?
It moved westward in a shape of a curve.
What are the names of the two destructive plates that caused the new zealand earthquake?
There is an excellent article on the Christchurch earthquake at wikipedia.org.As to the 'Plates responsible', the underlying assumption may be in doubt.The Pacific Plate subducts under the Australian plate in the north, and the Australian Plate subducts under the Pacific Plate in the south.The bit in between is subject to great thrust by the Pacific Plate, against the Australian Plate, and this raises the Southern Alps. These alps would have risen about 20 000m in the last 25 million years, but have been eroded away continuously, apart from the last 4000 m.
What has the author Frank Coffee written?
Frank Coffee has written: 'Forty years on the Pacific' -- subject(s): Description and travel
