What tectonic plates are under the Montserrat volcano?

Answer 1

This has nothing to do with the question but it is good information.

There are 14 tectonic plates 7 big ones

North and South America, Eurasian, Philippine, Juan De Fuca, Pacific, Caribbean, Africa, Arabian, Cocos, Australia, Antarctica, Nazca, and scotia.

Answer 2

The tectonic plates under the montserrat volcano are the Indian Asian plate boundaries which move at the speed of 1.2 inches every year or two.

- oh good Lord, if you're going to respond to a question, you really ought to (a) know the answer, and (b) be able to spell.

The actual answer - Montserrat sits on the Caribbean plate, which is sometimes called a sub plate or microplate. It is being squeezed between the North and South American plates, which are moving eastwards, and the Pacific and Nazca plates on the other side of the Americas which are moving westwards. Underneath Montserrat, the North and South American plate is sub ducting underneath the Caribbean plate, because at the point where Montserrat sits, these plates are of the denser oceanic variety.

There is some dispute about whether it is the North or South American plate involved in Montserrat - I have seen both listed in equal measure - because there is disagreement about where the split between those two plates actually is. On some maps in fact there is no split at all, which explains why the plates involved in Montserrat are sometimes listed as the Caribbean plate and the 'Atlantic' plate.

i think that both of these answers are fine. they give the correct answer but one just has more detail. i think that it is unfair to criticize someone else's answer.

Bla Bla Bla, first of all, person above me, Shut up!, second of all, it's the Caribbean AND the Atlantic, no Pacific stuff in there, people think if they write it down on the internet it becomes true. If you ask me, and if you have a project to do or something, just go to this site, it can tell you A LOT about it: l I went there for my project, you should too

Answer 3

Montserrat lies on a destructive plate boundary where the oceanic crust of the North American Plate is being subducted under the Caribbean Plate.

This is quite a complicated boundary!

Skip that person above, he/she doesn't know anything, it is on the Caribbean AND Atlantic Plate. It is a quite SIMPLE boundary genius.

Answer 4

The volcano on Montserrat lies on the boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate. The Caribbean Plate is subducting beneath the North American Plate, causing volcanic activity on the island.

Answer 5

They are located right beneath it. All tectonic plates are located beneath the Earth's surface.

Answer 6

The Eurasian and Carribean i think :)

Answer 7

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