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the north American plate is the plate that covers most of north America
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What type of plate occurs between north America and Eurasian plate?
divergent boundary
What are the two plate at the major plate boundary of the most seismically active area of North America?
North American Plate and the Pacific Plate.
Give an example of a divergent plate boundary.?
The North American-Eurasian Plate boundary.
What plate boundary separates the North American plate from the African plate?
Divergent plate boundary
Is the east coast of North America an active plate boundary?
No, the east coast of the United States is in the middle of the of the North American plate. The eastern most part of the North American plate boundary is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in an area known as the Mid-Atlantic Rift. The north western coast of North America (Oregon, Washington, Canada and Southern Alaska) are subduction zones.
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.
What are the two plates at the major boundary of the most seismically active area of north America?
The Pacific Plate and the North American Plate are the names of those two plates.
What type of plate boundary is foud where the gorda plate meets the north american plate?
The boundary between the Gorda plate and the North American Plate is a transform boundary. Transform boundaries that lie at near land are the most destructive, which is the case in Southern California, which is close to this plate boundary.
What are the two plates at the major plate boundary of the most seismically active area of north American?
Pacific and north america plates
What plate boundary is pelee on?
Convergent plate boundary between the North American and Caribbean plates.
What type of plate boundaries does the Eurasian plate have?
The eastern side is a boundary with the North American Plate to the north and a boundary with the Philippine Sea Plate to the south, and possibly with the Okhotsk Plate and the Amurian Plate.
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.
