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Why is it difficult to distinguish the boundary between the North American plate and the Pacific plate?
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∙ 14y ago
It is because the boundary in many places is actually inland and appears to be part of the continental land mass. It is not, however, welded to the North American Plate, moving independently of it.
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What type of plate boundary does pacific and N American plate form?
Convergent plate boundary.
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
What is the boundary between the north American and pacific plates?
San Andreas Fault.
What plate are the Aleution Islands on?
They are a convergent boundary between the North American and Pacific Plates.
What type of plate boundary is San Francisco on?
conservative. but sanfrancisco is actually on a transform fault not a boundary. the fault is a result of the boundary between the north American and pacific plates.
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 type of plate boundary does pacific and N American plate form?
Convergent plate boundary.
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
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.
What plate are the Aleution Islands on?
They are a convergent boundary between the North American and Pacific Plates.
Explain why there is no clearly define boundary between the Pacific plate and the North American plate?
There is a clearly defined boundary. Part of that boundary is called the San Andreas Fault.
What type of plate boundary is San Francisco on?
conservative. but sanfrancisco is actually on a transform fault not a boundary. the fault is a result of the boundary between the north American and pacific plates.
What type of plate boundary is between the North American and the Pacific plates?
It is a transform boundary.
The boundary of the Pacific plate scrapes against that of the North American plate and forms is what?
a fault zone
What boundary did the northridge earthquake occur on?
i think it happened on the north american plate and the pacific plate
