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What fault is located between the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate?
The fault between the North American plate and the Pacific plate is the San Andreas Fault.
Does the Pacific plate not include a continent?
Yes, the Pacific Plate does not include a continent; it is primarily an oceanic tectonic plate. It covers a vast area of the Pacific Ocean, bordered by various continental plates, including the North American Plate to the north and the Australian Plate to the southwest. While it interacts with continental regions, such as along the coasts of North America and Asia, the plate itself is predominantly underwater.
What are the two tectonics plates in California?
The Southern part of California is on the Pacific plate and the Northern part of California is on the North American plate.
What two tectonic plates border each other along the coast of California?
The Pacific Plate and the North American Plate border each other along the coast of California. The Pacific Plate is slowly moving northwest relative to the North American Plate, which can lead to seismic activity in the region, such as earthquakes.
What are two convergent boundaries on the largest plate called?
The two convergent boundaries on the largest plate, the Pacific Plate, are the boundary with the North American Plate along the west coast of North America, and the boundary with the Philippine Sea Plate in the western Pacific Ocean.
Is The Pacific Ocean Shrinking If So How?
The pacific ocean is shrinking due to subduction zones on the boundaries of the North american and Eurasian sides of the pacific plate causing the pacific plate to be subducted. This is bringing north America and Asia closer, but shrinking the pacific in the process.
What direction is the afrian plate moving?
It is moving to the west. As is the north American plate which will make the Atlantic Ocean bigger and the Pacific ocean smaller.
Name the 7 major tectonic plates that make up the continents and pacific ocean?
The 7 major tectonic plates that make up the continents and pacific ocean; African Plate, Antarctic Plate, Eurasian Plate, Indo-Australian Plate, North American Plate, Pacific Plate, South American Plate.
Why is Pacific Ocean ideal of Tsunamis?
The pacific plate slides across the North American plate for example, which causes tsunamis to form do to underwater earthquakes
On what two plates is most of the US?
Most of the US is on the North American Plate, which covers the majority of the continent. Some areas on the west coast, including California, are on the Pacific Plate, which runs along the Pacific Ocean.
Which two tectonic plates are separated by the midocean ridge?
The mid ocean ridge separates many plates, not just two. In the Atlantic Ocean it separates the Eurasian and African plates from the North American Plate and the African Plate from the South American Plate. In the Indian Ocean it separates the African Plate from the Antarctic, Australian, Indian Plates and the Australian Plate from the Antarctic Plate. In the Red Sea it separates the African Plate from the Arabian Plate. In the Pacific Ocean it separates the Pacific Plate from the Antarctic, Nazca, Cocos, and Juan de Fuca Plates and the Nazca Plate from the Cocos and Antarctic Plates.
What type of plate surrounds Mount Shasta?
Mount Shasta is inside the western end of the North American continental plate, west of it under the Pacific ocean the Pacific oceanic plate is subducting under the North American continental plate. Deep under the North American continental plate friction with the descending Pacific oceanic plate, melts rock in the contact zone which feeds the magma supply of Mount Shasta. As the magma surfaces trapped ocean water flashes to steam producing explosive lava.
The ring of fire surrounds which ocean?
The area encircling the Pacific Ocean is called the "Ring of Fire," because its edges mark a circle of high volcanic and seismic activity (earthquakes). Most of the active volcanoes on Earth are located on this circumference. On the periphery of the Pacific Ocean, the edge of the Pacific Continental Plate is expanding in the seabed, and is hitting the North American Plate, the Nazca Plate, the Eurasian Plate, and other plates, causing the margins of the plates to collide, buckle, and compress, causing earthquakes and volcanoes.
What fault is located between the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate?
The fault between the North American plate and the Pacific plate is the San Andreas Fault.
Does the Pacific plate not include a continent?
Yes, the Pacific Plate does not include a continent; it is primarily an oceanic tectonic plate. It covers a vast area of the Pacific Ocean, bordered by various continental plates, including the North American Plate to the north and the Australian Plate to the southwest. While it interacts with continental regions, such as along the coasts of North America and Asia, the plate itself is predominantly underwater.
What are the two tectonics plates in California?
The Southern part of California is on the Pacific plate and the Northern part of California is on the North American plate.
What kind of tectonic boundary is found in Washington state and around most of the pacific ocean?
It's a subduction zone. The Pacific Plate to the west is sliding under the North American plate to the east.
