The Faults - Raleigh Charter High School
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Gautam Sanka
The earth is broken into seven large and
moving plates.
The plates are about an average 50 miles thick
They typically move about a couple of inches
each year.
Convergent Boundaries- are when two plates
move toward each other and collide
When an Oceanic plate collides with a continental
plate, the oceanic plate goes beneath the
continental plate. This is called Subduction.
Ex. Nazca and South American Plate
Subduction also forms trenches
Convergent
Boundary
Trench
When two continental plates collide, they form
mountain ranges.
Ex. When the Indian plate converged with the Eurasian
plate, it formed the Himalayas.
Divergent Boundaries are where plates move
away from each other.
Ex. Mid-Ocean Ridge
Where plates diverge, hot, molten rock rises and
cools adding new material to the edges of the
oceanic plates. This is known as Sea-floor
Spreading.
Transform Fault-Boundaries are where plates
move past each other.
Ex. San Andreas Fault