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What is the area where two tectonic plates meet?

the answer is a rift zone


What is the similarity between a fault and a fault zone?

A fault is where to tectonic plates meet but a fault zone is the area around a fault.


What is the area called where two tectonic plates meet?

the answer is a rift zone


How a subduction zone forms?

When two plates move together (at least one must be oceanic crust), one will sink beneath the other. The result is that a subduction zone forms between the two plates at the location where they meet.


What is a subducation zone?

A subduction zone is a place that occurs between two tectonic plates. It is the site where these tectonic plates have collided.


An earthquake zone is likely to be along?

An earthquake zone is likely to be along fault lines or where two or more tectonic plates meet or a chain of volcanoes parallel to a continental coast.


What plates caused mount teide?

The plates responsible for forming Mount Teide are the African plate and the Eurasian plate. The Canary Islands, where Mount Teide is located, were formed by volcanic activity along a rift zone where these two plates meet. The magma rising from the Earth's mantle through this rift zone led to the formation of the volcanic islands, including Mount Teide on Tenerife Island.


Why do oceanic plates and a continental plates meet?

they bang


Plates move together at a what?

Subduction zone.


What do tectonic plates separate into?

no flex zone


What is a region where oceanic plates sink down into the asthenosphere?

A subduction zone is a region where oceanic plates sink down into the asthenosphere beneath another plate, such as at convergent plate boundaries. This process can lead to the formation of deep oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and earthquakes.


What is a suduction zone?

A subduction zone is a convergent boundary where two tectonic plates collide.