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The Pacific Plate does not carry a continent.
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Which tectonic plate does not carry a continent?
The Pacific Plate does not carry a continent.The Pacific plate does not carry a continent, only a few islands.
What is an example of an active continent to continent collision?
I can't give you a continent to continent but I can give you tectonic plate to tectonic plate. The Indian-Australian Plate is colliding with the Eurasian plate to form the Himalayan Mountains.
What countries lie on the Antarctic Plate?
The Antarctic plate is the tectonic plate that the continent of Antarctic. There are no countries on the Antarctic Plate.
Which plate boundary is responsible for mountain building?
Convergent plate boundaries are responsible for mountain building. Continent-to-continent boundaries build mountains like the Himalayas. Continent-to-ocean boundaries build mountains like the Cascades. The difference is that continent-to-continent convergent boundaries do not produce volcanoes.
The hellenic tectonic plate runs through which continent?
Europe
Which tectonic plate does not carry a continent?
The Pacific Plate does not carry a continent.The Pacific plate does not carry a continent, only a few islands.
Which plate doesn't carry a continent?
The Cocos Plate.
What is the difference between a plate and a continent?
A continent is what floats on top of the plate. There are continental and oceanic plates. The continents float on the continental plate and the ocean sits on the oceanic plate. But there are also plates that carry both continents and oceans. The plates are what causes continental drift. So basically plates are what carry the continents and oceans.
What is an example of an active continent to continent collision?
I can't give you a continent to continent but I can give you tectonic plate to tectonic plate. The Indian-Australian Plate is colliding with the Eurasian plate to form the Himalayan Mountains.
Does a tectonic plate have just a continent?
No. Most tectonic plates that carry a continent also include a significant amount of seafloor. Some plates consist almost entirely of oceanic crust.
What continent plate is Kilauea volcano in?
Kilauea is not on a continent. It is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and is located on the Pacific Plate.
What tectonic plate is in the continent of Africa on?
The tectonic plate is called the African Plate.
Which continent sits on top of the Arabian plate?
The continent that sits on top of the Arabian plate is Asia. The Arabian plate consists mostly of the Arabian peninsula.
What is similar in convergent plate boundary ocean to ocean and convergent plate boundary continent to continent?
They are the same size
What plate make up the continent of Eurasia?
The Eurasian Plate
Which plate carries the continent of Australia?
The Indo-Australian plate.
What are the different types of convergent plate boundary?
ocean-ocean ocean-continent continent-continent
