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When two plates move horizontally towards each other what do they form?
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∙ 13y ago
They don't form anything, when they meet they simply apply stress and strain upon each other until it becomes to stressful on them and one slips over or under the other and causes an earthquake.
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What is happening to the plates to form Mt Rainer?
The plates are moving towards each other and they collide.
If two geologic plates are sliding past each other they are at what boundary?
Transform boundary is when the plates are sliding past each other: ↑ ↓; Divergent is when plates are sliding away from each other: ← →; and convergent is when plates are sliding towards each other: → ←. Those are the three main plate boundaries.
What tectonic plates move alongside each other?
Transform. Transform boundaries are when two plates are moving horizontally past each other, neither destroying or creating crust. Just moving, minding their own business.
What is most likely to occur as a result of two tectonic plates sliding past each other horizontally?
earth quake
What are plates that move towards each other?
Plates that move toasted each other are detractive plates meeting at a destructive margin. If a continental and an oceanic plate move towards each other, earthquakes and volcanoes occur, this is called a subduction margin, but if the plates are both continental then fold mountains form this is a collision margin
When plates move horizontally past each other?
rift zone
Are the pacific plates and the antarctic plates moving towards each other or away from each other or past each other?
the plates are moving away from each other.
What happens when two plates are moving horizontally past each other?
it causes earthquakes!
What do tectonic plates do at transform plate boundaries?
They slide past each other horizontally.
What occurs when plates slide past each other?
A transform boundary is made when tectonic plates slide past each other.
When two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally it usually causes?
earthquakes
The place where two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally?
transform boundary
The type of boundary where two plates slide horizontally past each other?
oceanic/contintal
What plates move towards each other?
convergent
What are three ways plates can move in relation to one another?
Plates either move towards each other (convergent plates), away from each other (divergent plates) or slide next to each other (transform plates).
When two tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally the boundary between them is called?
convergent
the Sanandreas fault is a location where tectonic plates move horizontally past each other?
that is the transform boundaries
