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What type of plate boundary is lassen peak?
Lassen Peak is located within the Cascade Range in California and lies along the boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. This boundary is a convergent plate boundary, where the plates are colliding.
Is the pacific ocean on the north American plate?
no its on the pacific 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 two plates collided to form the Appalachian mountains?
The collision of the North American Plate and the African Plate helped create the Appalachian Mountains around 480 million years ago during the Ordovician Period. This collision resulted in the folding and uplifting of the Earth's crust, forming the mountain range we see today on the eastern coast of North America.
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.
What plates form the Rocky Mountains?
The North American plate collided with the Pacific plate that created the rocky mountains.
What two plates collided to form the rocky mountains?
The Juan de Fuca Plate and the North American Plate
What happened when the juan de fuca collided with the north American plate 1980?
He didn't collided the north American plate in 1980
Why is the San Andreas fault here?
Because the Pacific plate collided with the North American plate long ago, causing a variety of land phenomena (like the San Andreas fault).
How was rocky mountains formed?
The Rocky Mountains were formed by the collision of tectonic plates, the North American plate and the Pacific plate. When they collided, rock on each side was forced upwards or downwards. So rocks came up out of the ground on the west side of the North American Plate.
What type of plate boundary is lassen peak?
Lassen Peak is located within the Cascade Range in California and lies along the boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. This boundary is a convergent plate boundary, where the plates are colliding.
What are the plates called that causes in earthquake?
I would guess the Pacific and North American plates.
Is the pacific ocean on the north American plate?
no its on the pacific plate
What two plates collided to form the rockies?
The Juan de Fuca Plate and the North American Plate
What oceans is west of north and South America?
The Pacific Ocean is west of the North and South American continents.
What happens when the Pacific and North American plates meet?
The collision happened during the Jurassic Period and created the Himalayan Mountain Range.
What is happening to the plates to form mount saint Helen?
The 3 plates, The Juan de Fuca plate, the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate collided and made mt st helens but i'm not sure what's happening currently with the plates....
