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What boundary exists between the nazca plate and the south American plate?
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Are there earthquakes volcanoes hurricanes and tsunamis at he nazca plate boundary?
The plate boundary between the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate does produce volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. Hurricanes have nothing to do with plate boundaries.
What type of plate boundry occurs between the Nazca Plate and South American Plate?
It forms a convergent boundary with the South American Plate, divergent.
What type of boundary is found off the coast of Chile where the 8.8 earthquake occurred?
A transform boundary with the South American and Nazca Plate.
What body type is the Pacific plate and the Nazca Platew What boundary type is the Pacific plate and the Nazca plate?
The Nazca plate shares both convergent and divergent boundaries. The Pacific plate has both a transform boundary and divergent boundary
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.
What type of plate boundary occurs between the Nazca and South American Plate?
It is a convergent/destructive plate boundary.
What type of plate boundary between nazca plate and the south American plate?
It is a convergent/destructive plate boundary.
Which crustal plate can be found between nazca plate and south American plate?
Boundary
Are the Andes transform divergent or convergent boundary?
The Andes are a result of the convergent boundary between the Nazca and South American Plate.
Which tectonic plate boundary is Cali in Columbia located near?
It is located near the boundary between the South American and Nazca plates.
Are there earthquakes volcanoes hurricanes and tsunamis at he nazca plate boundary?
The plate boundary between the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate does produce volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. Hurricanes have nothing to do with plate boundaries.
What type of plate occurs between the nazca plate and South American plate?
It forms a convergent boundary with the South American Plate, divergent.
What type of plate boundry occurs between the Nazca Plate and South American Plate?
It forms a convergent boundary with the South American Plate, divergent.
What kind of boundary separates the South American Plate from the Nazca Plate?
It is called a convergent plate boundary.
At what boundary is oceanic crust destroyed?
Oceanic crust is destroyed at a convergent boundary where subduction occurs. An example includes the boundary between the Nazca and South American plate on the west coast South America.
What is the boundary of the Andes?
The type of boundary that the Andes mountains are, in South America, is a convergent plate boundary. This was formed from the collision of the South American plate boundary and the Nazca plate.
Why is the boundary of the Nazca Plate considered divergent rather than convergent?
The Nazca plate has more than one boundary. The western and northern boundaries are divergent as the plates are moving apart from one another. However, the Nazca plate's eastern boundary is convergent as it collides with and subducts under the South American Plate.
