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What type of fault exists between the North American and Pacific Plate?
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The North American and Pacific Plate boundary is an example of a convergent plate boundary, specifically an oceanic to continental convergent plate boundary.
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What two plates dose San Andreas fault separate?
It is the boundary between the North American and Pacific lithospheric plates.
What direction is the pacific plate moving relative to the north American plate?
north-northwest
Is the San Andreas fault connected to the North American plate?
The San Andreas fault is not connected to the North American or Pacific Plates but is merely the boundary between the two where they make contact. As such, it is a fault as well as a plate boundary.
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 is the result of two plates of the the San Andreas fault in California?
The two plates are the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate are the plates causing the San Andreas Fault.
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 is the relative direction between the north American and pacific plates?
west
What ocean is located between Asia and North American?
Pacific Ocean
What marks the boundary between the Pacific and North American Plates?
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What marks the boundary between the pacific and North American plate?
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What is the boundary between the north American and pacific plates?
San Andreas Fault.
Why is the west coast of the US called pacific hinge?
the key interface between the north American realm and pacific rim
What plate are the Aleution Islands on?
They are a convergent boundary between the North American and Pacific Plates.
What type of plate boundary exists between the North American and Pacific Plate near Mexico?
For the portion in the United States it is a transform boundaries, while in the Gulf of California it forms a series of transform and divergent portions.
What is the name of the fault that marks the boundary between the pacific and north American plates?
San andreas.
Is the pacific ocean on the north American plate?
no its on the pacific plate
What is located in the Pacific-North American Plate Boundary?
For the most part, the boundary between the North American and Pacific Plates is a transform boundary, where two plates are sliding and grinding past each other. by pm of 10 d 33
