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What direction is the pacific plate moving relative to the north American plate?
north-northwest
Describe the relative motion between the north American plate and the pacific plate?
The Pacific Plate is currently being subducted under the North American Plate. Subduction zones are when one plate is being forced under another at a convergent boundary (where two plates collide). When the Pacific Plate is being subducted under the North American Plate, the crust of the Pacific Plate melts, and creates volcanoes along the edge of the North American Plate. So, the relative motion of the two plates is that they are converging, or moving together.This same process is happening at the South American and Nazca Plates.
What is the relative location for Washington State?
In the Pacific northwest between Canada and Oregon.
What fault is located between the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate?
The fault between the North American plate and the Pacific plate is the San Andreas Fault.
What ocean is located between Asia and North American?
Pacific Ocean
What two tectonic plates border each other along the coast of California?
The Pacific Plate and the North American Plate border each other along the coast of California. The Pacific Plate is slowly moving northwest relative to the North American Plate, which can lead to seismic activity in the region, such as earthquakes.
Why is the west coast of the US called pacific hinge?
the key interface between the north American realm and pacific rim
What ocean lies between Europe and Africa?
That would be the Atlantic Ocean. Pacific is on the other side, by California. Pacific
What marks the boundary between the Pacific and North American Plates?
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What is the boundary between the north American and pacific plates?
San Andreas Fault.
What marks the boundary between the pacific and North American plate?
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What is a name of a plate between the Pacific and South American plates?
it is nazca plate
