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Plate boundaries, essentially, are the areas where two lithospheric plates meet. When this happens, one of three things can happen. Plates can move apart from each other, creating divergent boundaries. Plates can collide together, created convergent boundaries. Or plates can rub against each other in a parallel motion, created transform fault boundaries. Divergent boundaries, usually between two oceanic plates, creates an upswelling of magma from the lithosphere. Convergent boundaries, usually between oceanic and continental plates, causes the oceanic plate to subduct underneath the continental plate, leading to the destruction of seafloor. Transform fault boundaries neither destroy nor create lithosphere.
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Types of plate boundries?
The three main types of plate boundaries are divergent, convergent, and transform. Divergent boundaries occur where plates move apart, creating new crust. Convergent boundaries occur where plates collide and can result in subduction zones or mountain formation. Transform boundaries occur where plates slide past each other horizontally.
What type of plate tectonic is eyjafjallajokull volcano located on?
Eyjafjallajokull volcano is located on a convergent plate boundary, where the Eurasian Plate meets the North American Plate. This boundary is a subduction zone, where the denser oceanic crust of the North American Plate is being forced beneath the lighter continental crust of the Eurasian Plate, leading to volcanic activity.
Is Costa Rica a convergent plate boundary or a divergent boundary or a hot spot?
Costa Rica is a convergent plate boundary, specifically a subduction zone where the Cocos Plate is being subducted beneath the Caribbean Plate. This geologic process is responsible for the country's high levels of seismic and volcanic activity.
What is the lateral location of the plate if it has a thickness of 1 mm?
The total space etween stationary boundry is 1cm .Ethylen glycol is laced on the left side and propylene glycol is placed on the right . When the infinite plate that seartae the liquids is pulled upward,it finds an equilirium position. Determine the lateral location of the plate if it has a thickness of 1mm.
What A crack in the Earth's crust caused by tectonic plate movement is called a?
It is a rift zone or a divergent boundary. plus. no offense to that person that uploaded the previous answer.
What type of plate boundry is creating the shiveluch volcano in russia?
A convergent boundry is creating the shiveluch volcano in Russia. The Eurasian plate collides with the Pacific plate
What tectonic plate boundaries are near Kenya?
The Nubian/African boundry and the Somalian boundry
What type of plate boundry is Haiti on?
transformation boundries
What is a famous known plate boundary?
The San Andreas fault -- the boundary between the Pacific and North American plates
Whst plate boundry is mt. pelee on?
it is on the poo boundry becaue it farts and smells like sulphur (rotten eggs)
Is mt vesuvius on a plate boundry?
Yes, eurasian and African
What was the plate boundry on the San Francisco earthquake?
The san Andreas fault
Was it a conservative boundary that made the Kobe earthquake?
No, it was a destructive plate boundry. :)
Is the volcano El chichon located on a converging plate boundry?
yes it is
What type of plate boundry occurs between the Nazca Plate and South American Plate?
It forms a convergent boundary with the South American Plate, divergent.
What is the other name for a converging playe boundry?
Spreading plate boundary is the other name for converging plate boundary.
How long has California been at an active plate boundry?
225 million years
