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Predominately compressive stress, where the two plates are being forced together, however there will be components of all three stresses! As where the downgoing plate bends, the upper half of the plate is effectively being stretched so this will be experiencing tensile stress. Where it scrapes beneath the overlying plate there will be shear stress.
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What type of stress and what type of fault caused the Chilean earthquake?
Compressive stress which led to thrust faulting at a convergent boundary where subduction is occurring. Please see the related question for more information.
What type of fault is created by shear stress?
Shear stress causes Transform faults, in strike-slip zones of conservative boundaries.
What geologic features are associated with each type of convergent boundary?
Subduction zones, trenches and volcanic islands: the boundary that is oceanic. Trenches and volcanic islands: an oceanic-continental boundary. Folded mountain ranges: a continental and continental collision.
What type of structure produced by a pair of reverse faults?
I know of no structure caused by pairs of reverse faults. Pairs of normal faults can cause "horsts" and "graben". However in horizontal stress fields where the maximum principle stress is parallel to the Earth's surface and the minimum principle stress is normal to the Earth's surface only one one fault surface/plane usually develops (which may be imbricated) as the shortening and thickening usually build away from the source of compression. Also as the crust thickens the principal stress will not remain normal to Earth's surface for long. Reverse faults at very high strains therefore merge into napes or subduction zones.
What is the order of climate zones?
the type of climate zones are tempature,polar,and tropical
What type of stress and what type of fault caused the Chilean earthquake?
Compressive stress which led to thrust faulting at a convergent boundary where subduction is occurring. Please see the related question for more information.
Subduction zones and what type of boundary do they represent?
Subduction zones represent convergent boundaries, where oceanic crust is being subducted under continental crust, or under a less dense oceanic crust.
What type of force is often prevalent in back arc regions of subduction zones?
tension
What type of boundaries are subduction zones associated with?
Convergent oceanic - continental and oceanic - oceanic boundaries.
What type of fault causes earthquakes?
Subduction Zones and Transform faults can produce Earthquakes.
What type of earthquake hit Chile on the 27th of February 2010?
The Chilean earthquake had a magnitude of 8.8 and was a thrust fault earthquake that occurred at a convergent plate boundary where subduction of the Nazca plate under the South American plate is occurring. This type of thrust faulting at subduction zones is commonly referred to as a megathrust earthquake. Please see the related question for further information.
What type of fault is created by shear stress?
Shear stress causes Transform faults, in strike-slip zones of conservative boundaries.
What type of landforms or activity can be found at a convergent boundary?
You could find mountains, valleys, faults, subduction zones, trenches, or experience volcanism or earthquakes.
What are the 3 type of earthquakes?
(1)midocean spreading ridges, (2) subduction zones, and (3) transform faults.Normal fault, Reverse fault, and strike-slip fault
At what type of boundaries do subduction zones form?
In plate tectonics, when two tectonic plates move toward each other, it results in the formation of what is called a convergent plate boundary. The two plates are said to converge. One plate may be more dense than the other, and with the two plates pushing against each other, the plate that is more dense will "slide under" the other plate. The plate sliding under is said to subduct the other plate, and this creates what is called a subduction zone. Not all convergent plate boundaries have subduction zones, but all subduction zones are formed at convergent plate boundaries.
What is the major type of stress at convergent plate boundaries?
Subduction, is when one plate is pushed down into the magma, by the other plate sliding over the top.
What is the type of tectonic plate boundary that forms from a collision between two tectonics plates?
Convergent boundaries occur at subduction zones, the point where one plate slides under another plate.
