The San Andreas fault is not connected to the North American or Pacific Plates but is merely the boundary between the two where they make contact. As such, it is a fault as well as a plate boundary.
The name of the transform boundary that separates the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate is known as the San Andreas Fault. It is the site of many of the earthquakes that plague Southern California.
The two plates are the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate are the plates causing the San Andreas Fault.
The Pacific Plate and the North American Plate
North American and Pacific plates
The San Andreas Fault is a continental transform fault. It is around eight hundred and ten miles long and forms the boundary between the Pacific and the North American lithospheric plates. In California this crack in the crust of the earth is visible. As a result of this fault, many earthquakes have occurred in the regions that it passes.
The name of the transform boundary that separates the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate is known as the San Andreas Fault. It is the site of many of the earthquakes that plague Southern California.
The fault between the North American plate and the Pacific plate is the San Andreas Fault.
San Andreas
The Pacific Plate and the North American Plate are involved in the San Andreas fault. The Pacific Plate is moving to the northwest grinding pass the North American Plate.
The two plates are the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate are the plates causing the San Andreas Fault.
San Andreas Fault.
A transform boundary.
The San Andreas Fault forms the boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.
The Pacific Plate and the North American Plate
The Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.
San andreas.
Because the Pacific plate collided with the North American plate long ago, causing a variety of land phenomena (like the San Andreas fault).