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What is the age of the oldest oceanic crust on the North American Plate?
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Give the name of one plate that contains mostly oceanic lithosphere and of one plate that continenmental litosphere?
The Pacific plate is mostly oceanic lithosphere while the North American plate is mostly continental lithosphere.
What two tectonic plates border each other along the coast of California?
Pacific plate (oceanic) and North America plate (continental)
Can a continental and oceanic plate have a transform boundary?
Yes. An example is the San Andreas Fault, a transform boundary between the Pacific (oceanic) and the North American (continental) plates.
Where on earth is there an example of an oceanic plate going under a continental plate?
This phenomenon is called plate subduction and is seen in South America where the Nazca plate is being subducted under the South American plate. The Juan the Fuca plate is being subducted under North American plate.
What is colima volcanoes plate bondary?
The Colima volcano comes from the intersection of three different tectonic plates. The oceanic plates Cocos and Rivera intersect in a rift zone, which is subducted beneath the continental plate, the North American Plate, at the Middle American Trench.
Is the north American plate contental or oceanic?
the north American plate is in fact a continental plate.
What type of plate is North America?
The North American Plate is a combination of continental and oceanic plates. North America itself is continental crust.
What type of fault exists between the North American and Pacific Plate?
The North American and Pacific Plate boundary is an example of a convergent plate boundary, specifically an oceanic to continental convergent plate boundary.
Is the north American plate made of land?
Yes, it is but it is also made of oceanic crust.
Give the name of one plate that contains mostly oceanic lithosphere and of one plate that continenmental litosphere?
The Pacific plate is mostly oceanic lithosphere while the North American plate is mostly continental lithosphere.
Is north american plate oceanic?
NO!!! Most of it is above the ocena. However, the eastern seaboard of the USA marks the edge of the submarine part of that plate. If you look at a map of the eastern seaboard, without the ocean , the it fits neatly into the round should of Saharan North Africa; plate tectonics. !!!!!
What plate boundary is associated with earthquakes in Alaska?
The collision between the Pacific Oceanic Plate and the North American Continental plate can cause earthquakes in Alaska.
What two tectonic plates border each other along the coast of California?
Pacific plate (oceanic) and North America plate (continental)
What are the 2 oceanic plates?
The names are African, North American, South American, Eurasian, Australian, Antarctic, and Pacific plates. Several minor ones include the Arabian, Nazca, and Philippines plate. http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/plates1.html
What plate does Jamaica rest on?
Jamaica is not on a continental plate, it is on the Caribbean Plate which is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the north coast of South America. Just to the north of Jamaica is an oceanic transform fault which separates the Caribbean Plate from the North American plate. The evolution and geology of Jamaica result form the gradual movement associated with this transform fault.
What type of plate surrounds Mount Shasta?
Mount Shasta is inside the western end of the North American continental plate, west of it under the Pacific ocean the Pacific oceanic plate is subducting under the North American continental plate. Deep under the North American continental plate friction with the descending Pacific oceanic plate, melts rock in the contact zone which feeds the magma supply of Mount Shasta. As the magma surfaces trapped ocean water flashes to steam producing explosive lava.
Can a continental and oceanic plate have a transform boundary?
Yes. An example is the San Andreas Fault, a transform boundary between the Pacific (oceanic) and the North American (continental) plates.
