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The meeting place of one plate and another plate.
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Which South American continental margin is passive and not a plate boundary?
The eastern coast of South America is a passive margin, rather than a plate boundary.
What is usually found at an active margin but NOT at a passive margin?
Active and passive margins describe the various characteristics of continental margins that are a result of plate tectonics. An active margin usually has numerous volcanoes and mountains, while a passive margin typically do not have these formations.
Where slab of oceanic lithosphere are subducted under continental lithosphere?
destuctive plate margin
A passive continental margin has a while an active margin does not.?
An active continental margin may have a trench.
What plates slide past each other?
A transformed plate margin is the plate that slides past each other
What type of plate margin does Japan have?
Japan sits on top of a destructive plate margin.
Is Krakatoa a constructive or destructive plate margin?
Krakatoa is on a destructive plate margin, as are most volcanoes on land.
Is a plate margin and a plate boundary the same?
No,plate margin&plate boundary are not same.plate boundaries are definite regions where tectonic occurs,while margins are surface lines.
Which type of plate margin forms volcanoes?
A physcadelic plate.
What plate margin does Haiti lie on?
Haiti lies on the boundary of the Caribbean and North American plates. This area is known as a transform plate boundary where the plates slide past each other horizontally, causing frequent earthquakes.
Is Dukono formed on a plate Margin?
convergent
Which South American continental margin is passive and not a plate boundary?
The eastern coast of South America is a passive margin, rather than a plate boundary.
What does conservative plate margin mean?
Naval architecture : Margin plate are those plate which form the outer edge of the double bottom and must be water tight. In welded type ship it has sometimes flanged, but it has become common practice to extend the inner bottom plating and to attach it to the top of tank side bracket.
What plate Is Florida on?
Florida sits on the trailing margin of the North American tectonic plate.
What island arc?
The definition of the word island arc is " a curved chain of volcanic islands located at a tectonic plate margin, typically with a deep ocean trench on the convex side."
Which is synonymous with plate boundaries?
active continental margin
Which is synynonymous with plate boundaries?
active continental margin
