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What boundary type do the Nazca and South American plates share?
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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.
Which plates is subducting beneath the South American plate?
The nazca plate
Which plates touch the antarctic plate?
The Nazca, Scotia, South American, Australian, and African Plates. ;)
What is a name of a plate between the Pacific and South American plates?
it is nazca plate
Which tectonic plate is the puyehue volcano on?
The Puyehue Volcano is on the South America Plate near the Convergent boundary between the South America and Nazca Plates
What type of plates collided to form the Andes Mountains on the west coast of South America?
The Andes were a result of the collision of the Nazca Plate & the South American Plate.
What plate is galeras on?
Galeras Volcano is on the Nazca and the South American plates. It is a convergent boundary and a strato volcano.
Which tectonic plate boundary is Cali in Columbia located near?
It is located near the boundary between the South American and Nazca plates.
What boundary is Peru Chile Trench and Andes Mountains?
The Trench and Andes are on the boundaries of the Nazca and South American Plates. Both of those landforms are the result of a subducting Nazca Plate.
What boundary is Peru-Chile Trench and Andes Mountains?
The Trench and Andes are on the boundaries of the Nazca and South American Plates. Both of those landforms are the result of a subducting Nazca Plate.
What type of crust is found on the nazca plate?
It forms a convergent boundary with the South American Plate, divergent.
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.
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.
What is the plate boundary of Galeras Volcano?
Galeras Volcano is formed along Nazca and South American plates. It is a convergent boundary and is oceanic-continental. If you need more info. Go to geology.com
Is Salar de Uyuni formed on a convergent plate boundary?
Salar de Uyuni was formed from uplift and evaporation of a giant prehistoric lake, caused by the collision of the Nazca and South American Plates.
Which plates is subducting beneath the South American plate?
The nazca plate
What kind of fault is Chile located on?
Chile is located near a special type of thrust fault known as a convergent boundary. Chile is situated on the western coast of the continent of South America, this is the boundary between two tectonic plates, the Nazca plate (which is an oceanic plate) and the South American plate (a continental crustal plate). In this region the Nazca and South American plates 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.
