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What plate boundary separates the North American plate from the African plate?
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Divergent plate boundary
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What type of plate boundary is Haiti on?
Haiti is located on a transform boundary that separates the Caribbean plate and the North American plate.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge separates the Eurasian Plate from what other plate?
It separates the Eurasian Plate and North American Plate in the North Atlantic, and the African Plate from the South American Plate in the South Atlantic.
What type of plate is the Mid Atlantic Ridge?
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is not actually a tectonic plate, but a divergent boundary between plates where new oceanic crust is being created on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. To the north, it marks the boundary between the Eurasian Plate and the North American Plate. To the south, it separates the African Plate from the South American Plate.
How fast are the North American and Eurasian plates moving apart?
The spreading rate at the Mid Atlantic Ridge (the divergent boundary that separates the North American and Eurasian plates) is approximately 2.5 cm/yr.
What major plates correspond with the mid-Atlantic Ridge?
The North American and Eurasian Plates in the North Atlantic and the South American and African Plates in the South Atlantic border the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
What type of plate boundary is Haiti on?
Haiti is located on a transform boundary that separates the Caribbean plate and the North American plate.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge separates the Eurasian Plate from what other plate?
It separates the Eurasian Plate and North American Plate in the North Atlantic, and the African Plate from the South American Plate in the South Atlantic.
What type of plate is the Mid Atlantic Ridge?
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is not actually a tectonic plate, but a divergent boundary between plates where new oceanic crust is being created on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. To the north, it marks the boundary between the Eurasian Plate and the North American Plate. To the south, it separates the African Plate from the South American Plate.
What plate boundary is eyjafjallajokull on?
Eyjafjallajokull is located in Iceland on the Mid-Atlantic-Ridge which separates the North American and Eurasian plates.
How fast are the North American and Eurasian plates moving apart?
The spreading rate at the Mid Atlantic Ridge (the divergent boundary that separates the North American and Eurasian plates) is approximately 2.5 cm/yr.
What major plates correspond with the mid-Atlantic Ridge?
The North American and Eurasian Plates in the North Atlantic and the South American and African Plates in the South Atlantic border the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Give an example of a divergent plate boundary.?
The North American-Eurasian Plate boundary.
What ocean separates north american and europe?
The North Atlantic
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 sea separates the Asian and North American continenets?
The Bering Sea separates Alaska (North America) from Siberia (Asia).
What Mid-Atlantic Ridge separates the Eurasian Plate from what other plate?
It separates the Eurasian Plate and North American Platenorth american
Name the strait that separates North American from Asia?
The strait that separates North America and Asia is the Bering Strait. The strait is 82 kilometers long and separates Alaska from Russia.
