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The Greater Antilles are located near a transform plate boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate. These plates are silding past one another. In the area where these plates meet, stress builds up, which is released in the form of earthquakes.
Convergent Plate Movement.
The movement of the plates relative to one another much greater stress along faults than is typically found away from plate boundaries.
the divergent plate movement
The Pacific Plate. In the middle of the plate the volcano is rising from the plate movement.
The Greater Antilles are located near a transform plate boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate. These plates are silding past one another. In the area where these plates meet, stress builds up, which is released in the form of earthquakes.
Many would consider Puerto Rico and all of the greater Antilles as part of North America. In reality, with the exception of Cuba which is on the North American tectonic plate, the Caribbean island-chain known as the Greater and Lesser Antilles are on the north and east side of a separate tectonic plate called, appropriately enough, the Caribbean Plate. Puerto Rico is the smallest island of the Greater Antilles. So technically, Puerto Rico cannot be found on any of the seven continents.
There is a value of a pueto rico pearl of the antilles plate which is $5.25.
The islands of the Greater Antilles were formed through a combination of tectonic plate movements and volcanic activity. The region is located along the boundary between the Caribbean and North American tectonic plates, leading to the formation of mountains and volcanic arcs that eventually emerged as the islands we see today.
It is not Puerto Rico. Haiti was once the wealthiest of the islands and known as the Pearl of the Antilles.
the question can also be stated: As the Caribbean plate moved away from Africa, it carried small continental pieces with it, and those pieces became the islands of the ______? and the correct answer is Greater Antilles
Convergent Plate Movement.
They cause plate movement. The plate movement then causes an earthquake.
The movement of the plates relative to one another much greater stress along faults than is typically found away from plate boundaries.
The heat from the plate movement is created when it moves.
Divergent plate movement.
The islands of the Greater Antilles were formed from the collision of tectonic plates. This collision caused volcanic activity, which led to the formation of the mountainous terrain and volcanic rock that make up the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica. Over time, erosion and other geological processes have shaped the islands into their current forms.