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Q: What types plate boundary forms the sierra Nevada?
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What type of boundary is the sierra Nevada?

Transform Plate Boundary


What are the Sierra Nevada Mountains made out of?

Half of it lies on the North American Plate and half of it is on the Pacific Plate.


Where is the sierra mountains located and how do they form?

The Sierra Mountains are located in California and Nevada. The Sierra Nevada Mountain Range was formed by 2 colliding plate boundaries that collided and formed the Sierra Nevada Mountain.


What does a transformational plate boundary form?

A transformational plate boundary forms earthquakes.


Are an oceanic plate colliding with a continental plate to form the sierra Nevada mountain range?

An oceanic plate colliding with a continental plate formed the Sierra Nevada. That collision is no longer happening, though, as that oceanic plate. the Farallon Plate, is mostly gone, with remnants to the north and south.


A mid-ocean ridge forms at what type of plate boundary?

A mid-ocean ridge forms at the divergent plate boundary. This boundary initially forms rifts that later on become rift valleys.


What type of plate boundary is near Sierra Madre?

yi dont no


What kind of plate boundary commonly forms a chain of volcanoes?

The Transform plate boundary commonly forms a chain of volcanoes - Professer Humifiken


How did the mountain Sierra Nevada form?

Pacific and Northern plates crashed against each other and cause the sierra Nevada mountains form


What plate boundary forms arcs of volcanoes and deep-ocean trenches?

A convergent plate boundary where subduction occurs.


What does transform plates boundary form?

A transformational plate boundary forms earthquakes.


What type of plate boundary form a mid ocean ridge?

A mid-ocean ridge forms at the divergent plate boundary. This boundary initially forms rifts that later on become rift valleys.