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Are the two plates along the coast of south America probably a divergent boundary or a convergent?
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It is a convergent boundary The subduction of the pacific plate underneath the west coast of South America creates the uplift and volcanoes that is still producing the Andean mountain range. A divergent boundary would create a mid-ocean ridge, or somthing akin to the great rift valley in Africa.
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What three major landforms enclose South America in the west and east?
Transform boundary. It's transform boundary because there are mainly earthquakes in the west coast so, the transform boundary is when the plates move horizontally past each other which cause earthquakes.
What type of plates collided to form the Andes Mountains on the west coast of South America?
The Andes were a result of the collision of the Nazca Plate & the South American Plate.
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Are the two plates along the coast of South America probably a divergent boundary or a convergent boundary?
It is a convergent boundary The subduction of the pacific plate underneath the west coast of South America creates the uplift and volcanoes that is still producing the Andean mountain range. A divergent boundary would create a mid-ocean ridge, or somthing akin to the great rift valley in Africa.
What plate boundary is the west coast of south America?
Convergent
What mountain range in south America is formed by a convergent plate boundary?
glucise
What is the boundary of the Andes?
The type of boundary that the Andes mountains are, in South America, is a convergent plate boundary. This was formed from the collision of the South American plate boundary and the Nazca plate.
What type of plate occurs between north America and Eurasian plate?
divergent boundary
What are all the plate boundaries?
A simple answer is: Colliding and subductive as they consume the Earth as a portion of the plate is moved beneath another plate and remelted into magma. A common example is the western side of South America where the denser oceanic Pacific Plate moves under the less dense continental South American Plate. The Pacific melts into magma and the South American rises to form the Andes Mts. with a great deal of volcanic activity.
Where is there a real world example of an oceanic to oceanic convergent boundary?
The western coast of South America is a very good example of an oceanic to continental convergent boundary where the Nazca plate is colliding (and being subducted beneath) the South American plate.
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The Puyehue Volcano is on the South America Plate near the Convergent boundary between the South America and Nazca Plates
At what boundary is oceanic crust destroyed?
Oceanic crust is destroyed at a convergent boundary where subduction occurs. An example includes the boundary between the Nazca and South American plate on the west coast South America.
Is the El chichon volcano located along colliding plate boundaries?
El Chinchon is not a shield volcano it is a lava dome volcano. Lava dome volcanoes have a layering of lava that fans up and outward in the center.
What type of plate boundary is the Andes mountains?
The type of boundary that the Andes mountains are, in South America, is a convergent plate boundary. This was formed from the collision of the South American plate boundary and the Nazca plate.
What are two real world examples of a divergent boundary?
The mid-oceanic ridge in the Atlantic Ocean is one. MID OCEAN RIDGES ARE NOT CONVERGENT BOUNDARIES, but rather are divergent boundaries. This map shows the tectonic plate boundaries. With the help of the legend, you should see where all the divergent, spreading boundaries are: http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/evolving_earth/tectonic_map.jpg Like the word "convergent" implies, convergent boundaries occur where tectonic plates converge, or come together. There are convergent boundaries on the west coast of South America, along the coast of Oregon and Washington in the Pacific Northwest of the US, along the southern edge of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, along the eastern edge of Japan. MID OCEAN RIDGES ARE NOT CONVERGENT BOUNDARIES, but rather are divergent boundaries.
