but now it is being turned into a new plate boundary. The depressions are indicative of a strike-slip fault, which is the same kind of fault as the San Andreas Fault in California.(Image credit: Aurélie
When two plates come together, The impact of the two colliding plates buckles the edge of one or both plates up into a rugged mountain range, and sometimes bends the other down into a deep seafloor trench. A chain of volcanoes often forms parallel to the boundary, to the mountain range, ...
Rocks returned from the moon suggest that there was a “late heavy bombardment period” in which there was an anomalously high flux of large meteors hitting the Earth∼3.9 billion years ago (Abramov and Mojzsis2009), which could have been planet-sterilizing. Thus, using the most conservative...
but now it is being turned into a new plate boundary. The depressions are indicative of a strike-slip fault, which is the same kind of fault as the San Andreas Fault in California.(Image credit: Aurélie