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The San Andreas fault forms a continuous narrow break in the Earth's crust that extends from northern California southward to Cajon Pass near San Bernardino. Southeastward from Cajon Pass several branching faults, including the San Jacinto and Banning faults, share the movement of the crustal plates. In this stretch of the fault zone, the name "San Andreas" generally is applied to the northeastern most branch.
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∙ 12y agoNorth American Plate and the Pacific Plate.
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∙ 14y agoThe Nazca plate and the South American Plate are two plates which meet along the West Coast of the USA
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∙ 14y agoThe two plates that meet in the San Andreas Fault are the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate.
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∙ 11y agoThe Nazca plate and the South American Plate are two plates which meet along the West Coast of the USA
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∙ 15y agoThe Pacific and North American Plates.
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∙ 10y agopacific and north American
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Convergent boundaries can be divided into 3 categories what are these categories and what geological feature are created by each?
The categories are a continental and a continental plate colliding, continental and oceanic plates colliding, and oceanic and oceanic plates colliding. The two continental plates form mountains. The continental and oceanic plated colliding cause subduction zones and volcanoes. Oceanic and oceanic plates colliding form a trench.
What type of plate boundary occurs when two plates move towards each other?
This is called a convergent boundary, because the two plates are converging, or coming together.
Two plates grind past each other at a?
I'm learning about this at school too! When two plates slide right past each other in either direction is called Shearing.
A rift valley can form where two continental plates are?
At diverging continental plate boundaries. Where tectonic plates made up of continental crust move away from each other, causing a depression it the earths crust.
Are the pacific plates and the antarctic plates moving towards each other or away from each other or past each other?
the plates are moving away from each other.
Are the planets in California colliding Separating or sliding past each other?
It is the "Plates" in California that are moving past each each, The western plate is moving north and the eastern plate is moving south.
How does earthquake causes?
Tectonic plates shifting or colliding with each other
How do the plates move to form volcanoes?
The tectonic plates move divergent when they move away from each other, convergent when they are colliding with each other, and trasform when they slide past each other.
Convergent boundaries can be divided into 3 categories what are these categories and what geological feature are created by each?
The categories are a continental and a continental plate colliding, continental and oceanic plates colliding, and oceanic and oceanic plates colliding. The two continental plates form mountains. The continental and oceanic plated colliding cause subduction zones and volcanoes. Oceanic and oceanic plates colliding form a trench.
What type of plate boundary occurs when two plates move towards each other?
This is called a convergent boundary, because the two plates are converging, or coming together.
What is part of the theory of plate tectonics?
The theory is that the tectonic plates have faults and are colliding, moving away, or going by each other. ~Toria, 12
What happens when vibrations caused by the plates of earths crust colliding with each other?
Well it would cause an earthquake and sometimes a volcano to erupt
When tectonic plates collide?
When tectonic plated collide they create an earthquake. It happens by them colliding and shaking each other forming a big movement.
What kind of three faults occur at different plate boundaries?
Trasform(plates sliding past each other.) Converging(plates colliding.) Divergent(plates moving away.) These are 3 different types of plate boundries
Where are earthquakes most likely to take place?
Earth quakes tend to take place where the edges of tectonic plates meet. There is no one specific place where earth quakes happen, but California does have a lot of earthquakes. Earth quakes are caused by two plate sliding over each other, colliding into each other or pulling away from each other.
Two plates grind past each other at a?
I'm learning about this at school too! When two plates slide right past each other in either direction is called Shearing.
What kind of mountains are the Rockies?
They are fold mountains as it is a mountain range. It is caused by either 2 continental plates or an oceanic and a continental plate colliding into each other.
